The brutal suppression of the uprising in Morant Bay in October 1865 under Governor Edward Eyre and the ensuing 'reign of terror' is a watershed in Jamaican history. Paul Bogle and …
In Jamaica, dancehall music and culture has become perhaps the most prominent expression of Jamaican popular culture. Taking its name from dance halls in which popular local …
Lizards are ugly! Or are they? Croaking Johnny didn’t have any friends, for after all, who would want to be friends with a lizard! Then he meets Dizzy Lizzy and discovers there’s a …
In the colonial flurry of the first half of the 20th century, Barbadian businessmen fought against the pulling tide of `King Sugar’ to forge their own paths, and thus permanently …
A most interesting and unusual anthology, Lunchtime Medley: Writings on West Indian Cricket brings together a range of pieces related to West Indian cricket. Selected by poet and …
Caribbean Cultural Identity: An Essay in Cultural Dynamics is a reaffirmation of the validity of that persistent quest by the Jamaican and Caribbean people for place and purpose in …
Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados, 1680-1834 is one of the first specialised treatments of an Anglophone Caribbean port-town by a contemporary historian. Having …
This drama trilogy shows the story of the Calypso art form over four decades of social and artistic change, 1930-1970. Sing de Chorus, the first in the series, recreates conditions …
The Story of the Jamaican People is the first general history of Jamaica to be written in almost 40 years. It differs significantly from earlier “imperial” histories which have …
