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"This book is a companion volume to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004"--P. [4] of cover.

Aalyses the important but neglected role of the attorneys who managed estates, chiefly for absentee proprietors, and assesses their efficiency and impact on Jamaica during slavery and freedom. This work charts both the extent of absentee ownership and the complex structure of the managerial hierarchy that stretched across the Atlantic.

Spanning three generations of teacher-writers, Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature speaks to the emergence of a distinct body of teaching styles, approaches, methods and philosophy for teaching literature. Each generation enriched by the others has extended the field of literature teaching.

Presents the results of five years' research examining the relationship between men and tertiary education. The study focuses on the lived experiences and perceptions of three sets of young men: those who did not qualify to enter university; those who qualified but bypassed tertiary education; and those who qualified but have delayed entry.

Discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic and its subsequent evolution on the plantations of the New World, and provides a detailed map of how English writers, poets and dramatists interpreted it for English audiences.

This book is meant to guide, comfort and support journalists. While they may chafe against legal restrictions, they should know that there is a lot they can do and say within the law. With a better understanding of their legal rights, journalists can go about their business with greater confidence, knowing when to yield and when to stand firm.

Presents the final instalment of research and analysis by one of the Caribbean's foremost historians. In this volume, Eric Williams reflects on the institution of slavery from the ancient period in Europe down to New World African Slavery. The book also includes other forms of bondage which followed slavery.

Aims to disrupt the conventional rendering of the Caribbean as uniquely and deeply homophobic. Beyond Homophobia presents a range of perspectives on and techniques with which to interrogate notions of identity, sexualities, victimhood, agency, activism, fluidity, visibility, class, homophobia, coming out, belonging and spirituality.

Presents a collection of critical perspectives on questions of how sexual orientation and gender in the Caribbean are conceived, studied, discoursed and experienced. This collection seeks to provide a fresh set of lenses through which to examine the issues affecting people in the Caribbean who fall outside traditional binary categories.

Offers a comprehensive history of the Jamaican coffee industry, covering a period of rapid expansion and decline. The primary objective is to examine the structure and performance of the industry and to demonstrate the extent to which it contributed to the diversity of the Jamaican economy and society in this period.

Provides medical students and allied health professionals and practitioners with a framework for understanding and applying communication skills in the context of medical education and health education in health settings. This volume provides an integration of knowledge, attitude and behavioural learning outcomes, and of principles with practices.

Showcases moments when the Jamaican and American people of the African diaspora have cooperated with each other in the socio-geographic spaces of each, employing a variety of disciplinary methods to present and interpret this history.

Based on the results of a long-term, field-based research project that began in 2006, The Greening of Saint Lucia applies a novel research methodology for human-environment research to study the rural landscape of Saint Lucia alongside findings derived from natural and social science sources.

Presents the author's experiences within the field of arbitration in Jamaica, and is annotated with practical solutions not often found in textbooks on the subject alongside answers to frequently asked questions.

A lyrical yet unflinching examination of the ruinous intimacies sustained by and sustaining plantation slavery. Set around Jamaica's Christmas Rebellion and framed around three characters who are free themselves, but hedged in by the oppressive protocols of slavery, Free is a meditation on violence, memory, community, love and forgiveness.

The Red House has been the seat of Trinidad and Tobago's parliament for over one hundred years. This work showcases a diverse collection of both precolonial and colonial-period artefacts, and examines the role of the site's precolonial inhabitants as dynamic, self-reflexive history makers.

Traces the path of national cuisine formation in the young post-colonial country of Belize. With captivating anecdotes and solid data, Lyra Spang describes the important role of tourism in driving culinary innovation in Belize and the powerful influence of cultural politics on the process of deciding whose food is considered Belizean.

Contends that postmodernism ought to be the guiding construct in considering leadership in education and management. Postmodernism challenges convention, embraces otherness and champions the diversification of authority. Educational leadership in a postmodern era must be informed by an approach of radical inclusivity and power sharing.

This biography of Marcus Garvey documents the forging of his remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914-1918).

This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher.

Situates the role Errol Barrow played in the transformation of Barbados in the wider Caribbean and international context. This study draws on archival records from Britain and Barbados, and interviews and other sources.

Provides a range of perspectives on the development of Jamaican popular music and culture, in particular reggae and dancehall, and opens the door to new debates on these music forms and their producers and creators. It moves through early musical debates and incendiary intellectual contributions in Jamaican reggae to trace Jamaican popular music in new geographical locales.

In this wide-ranging study, Stephen Stuempfle explores the transformation of the landscape (material environment) of Port of Spain from the cocoa boom era at the turn of the twentieth century through Trinidad and Tobago's independence from Britain in 1962.

Presents an overview and genealogy of Revivalism. Maria A. Smith explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and, by extension, African Jamaicans. Smith makes the point that the iconography makes it possible for Revivalists to interpret events and rituals in much the same way across Jamaica.

Traditionally a navigating and migratory people, Portuguese settlers came to the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century. Though few in number, the Portuguese contribution to their adopted homeland is of a significance beyond the small size of the community. The tale of the Madeirans in Trinidad and Tobago and Luso-Trinidadians and Tobagonians has gone untold. This is an attempt to tell their story.

Within small markets for television like Jamaica, where sustaining a show on air is affected by financial and other challenges, remaining on air for a long time becomes a key marker of a television programme's success. Still on Air documents the historical, production and broadcast experiences of some of Jamaica's long-running television shows.

Discusses alternative theoretical perspectives, sustainable growth-inducing economic policies, and special challenges in this era of neoliberal globalization. These perspectives, policies and challenges have to be seriously considered if appropriate interventions towards changing the Caribbean status quo and eliminating social and political ills are to be pursued.

This is Sir George Alleyne's autobiography. With his signature charm, Alleyne recounts his experiences from primary and secondary school in racially divided Barbados to gaining a Barbados Scholarship to study medicine at University College of the West Indies. Alleyne enjoyed a stellar academic career with prolific research output.

Provides an understanding of Caribbean firms and industries as they operate within the global value chain. This text explores the strategies adopted by selected firms and industries to attain competitiveness in the context of global markets, discusses the strategies of leading global firms, and analyses the local policy and institutional environment for business.