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Title: | A Concise History of Jamaica |
Authors: | Morgan, K |
Keywords: | history;area studies;African studies;regional and world history: general interest |
Issue Date: | 31-Oct-2023 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Citation: | Morgan, K. (2023) A Concise History of Jamaica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. xii, 1 - 448. doi: 10.1017/9781108633765 |
Abstract: | Kenneth Morgan's history of Jamaica is a social, economic, political, and cultural assessment of the island's most important periods and themes over the past millennium. This includes the island's development before 1500, with detailed material on the Taino society; the two centuries of slavery and its aftermath between 1660 and 1860; the continuance of colonialism between 1860 and 1945; the background to Jamaican independence between 1945 and 1960; and the evolution of Jamaica as an independent nation since the early 1960s. Throughout, Morgan discusses important themes such as race, slavery, empire, poverty, and colonialism, and the unbalanced social structure that existed for much of Jamaica's history – the small, overwhelmingly white elite overseeing and controlling the lives of black and brown people beneath them on the social scale. Ending with an assessment of the contemporary period, this work offers an authoritative, up-to-date history of Jamaica. |
Description: | The file archived on this institutional repository includes the title page, contents and the acknowledgement only. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/28420 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108633765 |
ISBN: | 978-1-108-47225-8 (hbk) 978-1-108-45918-1 (pbk) 978-1-108-63376-5 (ebk) |
Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: Kenneth Morgan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0326-6042 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Embargoed Research Papers |
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