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Author : James Hakewill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica written by James Hakewill and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Hakewill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book A picturesque Tour in the Island of Jamaica, from drawings made in the years 1820 and 1821 written by James Hakewill and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Krista A. Thompson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388561
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book An Eye for the Tropics written by Krista A. Thompson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.
Author : Thomas Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register written by Thomas Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyn O'Callaghan
Publisher : Caribbean Literature in Transi
ISBN 13 : 1108475884
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1 written by Evelyn O'Callaghan and published by Caribbean Literature in Transi. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800-1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.
Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual Report on Jamaica written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Kenney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351813323
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Race and Transatlantic Identities written by Elizabeth Kenney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Transatlantic Identities provides a rich overview of the complex relationship between the construction of race and transatlantic identity as expressed in a variety of cultural forms, refracted through different disciplinary and critical perspectives, and manifested at different historical moments. Spanning a period from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the contributions provide a panorama of the wealth and variety of contemporary approaches to grappling with notions of race in a transatlantic context, raising questions about the permanence and fixity of racial boundaries. The volume, which focuses on the cultural sites where individuals construct and express their racial identities in the context of those boundaries, also explores strategies through which those boundaries are defined and redefined. The collection conducts this inquiry by juxtaposing essays on literature, history, visual arts, material culture, music, and dance in ways that encourage the reader to engage with concepts across traditional disciplinary boundaries. The articles in this book were originally published in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies.
Author : Ana Lucia Araujo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443810681
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Living History written by Ana Lucia Araujo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focusses on the several forms of reconstructing the slave past in the present. The recent emergence of the memory of slavery allows those who are or who claim to be descendents of slaves to legitimize their demand for recognition and for reparations for past wrongs. Some reparation claims encompass financial compensation, but very often they express the need for memorialization through public commemoration, museums, and monuments. In some contexts, presentification of the slave past has helped governments and the descendants of former masters and slave merchants to formulate public apologies. For some, expressing repentance is not only a means to erase guilt but also a way to gain political prestige. The authors analyse different aspects of the recent phenomenon of memorializing slavery, especially the practices employed to stage the slave past in both public and private spaces. The essays present memory and oblivion as part of the same process; they discuss reconstructions of the past in the present at different public and private levels through historiography, photography, exhibitions, monuments, memorials, collective and individual discourses, cyberspace, religion and performance. By offering a comparative perspective on the United States and West Africa, as well as on Western Europe, South America, and the Caribbean, the chapters offer new possibilities to explore the resurgence of the memory of slavery as a transnational movement in our contemporary world.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Jamaica ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth A. Bohls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316148157
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Slavery and the Politics of Place written by Elizabeth A. Bohls and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography played a key role in Britain's long national debate over slavery. Writers on both sides of the question represented the sites of slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and the British Isles - as fully imagined places and the basis for a pro- or anti-slavery political agenda. With the help of twenty-first-century theories of space and place, Elizabeth A. Bohls examines the writings of planters, slaves, soldiers, sailors, and travellers whose diverse geographical and social locations inflect their representations of slavery. She shows how these writers use discourses of aesthetics, natural history, cultural geography, and gendered domesticity to engage with the slavery debate. Six interlinked case studies, including Scottish mercenary John Stedman and domestic slave Mary Prince, examine the power of these discourses to represent the places of slavery, setting slaves' narratives in dialogue with pro-slavery texts, and highlighting in the latter previously unnoticed traces of the enslaved.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Jamaica for ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Thomas
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848848404
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Buccaneer King written by Graham Thomas and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy. His name was Captain Sir Henry Morgan and, unlike his contemporaries, he was not hunted down and killed or captured by the authorities. Instead he was considered a hero in England and given a knighthood as well as being made governor of Jamaica. As Graham Thomas reveals in this fresh biography of this complex and intriguing character, Morgan was an exceptional military leader whose prime motivation was to amass as much wealth as he could by sacking and plundering settlements, towns and cities up and down the Spanish Main.??As featured on BBC Radio Wiltshire and in Cardiff Times.
Author : Graham A. Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632208776
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)
Download or read book The Pirate King written by Graham A. Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling account of history's most famous pirate. The Pirate King is the compelling true story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy. The inspiration for dozens of fictionalized pirates in film, television, and literature—as well the namesake of one of the world’s most popular rum brands—Captain Sir Henry Morgan was matchless among pirates and privateers. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he was not hunted down and killed or captured by the authorities. Instead he was considered a hero in England and given a knighthood and eventually was made governor of Jamaica. As Graham Thomas reveals in this fresh biography of this complex and intriguing character, Morgan was an exceptional military leader whose prime motivation was to amass as much wealth as he could by sacking and plundering settlements, towns, and cities up and down the Spanish Main. Featuring graphic accounts of Morgan’s exploits, eventually leading to an unparalleled rise to power and legitimacy, The Pirate King is a riveting read sure to become a key text in pirate literature. Thomas dispels myths and separates fact from fiction as he presents an intriguing new portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Kate Phillips
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1804250287
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Bought & Sold written by Kate Phillips and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the story of how and why thousands of Scots made money from buying and selling humans... a story we need to own. We need to admit that many Scots were enthusiastic participants in slavery. Union with England gave Scotland access to both trade and settlement in Jamaica, Britain's richest colony and its major slave trading hub. Tens of thousands from Scotland lived and worked there. The abolition campaign and slave revolts threatened Scottish plantation owners, merchants, traders, bankers and insurance brokers who made their fortunes from slave-farmed sugar in Jamaica and fought hard to preserve the system of slavery. Archives and parliamentary papers in both countries reveal these transatlantic Scots in their own words and allow us to access the lives of their captives. Scotland and Jamaica were closely entwined for over one hundred years. Bought & Sold traces this shared story from its early beginnings in the 1700s to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and reflects on the meaning of those years for both nations today.
Author : Henrice Altink
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134268696
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838 written by Henrice Altink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.
Author : New York Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book List of Works Relating to the West Indies written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
