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The Jamaican People, 1880-1902
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Patrick E. Bryan
Categories: Jamaica
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher:

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A description of the period in Jamaica's history that follows the abolition of slavery, up to the introduction of universal adult suffrage. The author analyzes
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Language: en
Pages: 706
Authors: Marlon James
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-08 - Publisher: Riverhead Books

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A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers,
The Jamaica Reader
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Diana Paton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-30 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most important hist
The Story of the Jamaican People
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Sir Philip Manderson Sherlock
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers

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A history of the Jamaican people from an Afro-Caribbean rather than a European perspective. Africa is at the centre of the story; for by claiming Africa as home
How to Love a Jamaican
Language: en
Pages: 190
Authors: Alexia Arthurs
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-24 - Publisher: Ballantine Books

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“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith An