A Concise History of Jamaica
Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-45918-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-45918-1 (ISBN)
This book is a social, economic, political, and cultural assessment of Jamaica over the past millennium. Exploring themes such as race, slavery, empire, poverty, and colonialism in an accessible way, this authoritative work will appeal to all readers interested in the Atlantic world.
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.
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.
Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University London. An economic and social historian of the Atlantic world between 1650 and 1850, he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Taino, c. 600–1508; 2. Spanish Jamaica, 1509–1655; 3. Creating an English Jamaica, 1656–1775; 4. From Slavery to Freedom, 1776–1865; 5. The Shadow of Colonialism, 1866–1944; 6. Modern Jamaica, 1945–2022; Conclusion.
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.12.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Concise Histories |
Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 142 x 215 mm |
Gewicht | 590 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
ISBN-10 | 1-108-45918-8 / 1108459188 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-45918-1 / 9781108459181 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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