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Lady Nugent's Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805
Lady Nugent's husband was governor of Jamaica during a critical period of the Napoleonic Wars. Her personal diary conveys impressions of life among the slave-owning colonial …
Livestock, Sugar and Slavery
The economic and social history of Jamaica has been dominated by a tradition of scholarship that has tended to focus on the study of the ruling sugar planter elite – the …
Engendering Caribbean History
There is now a significant body of research on Caribbean Women’s History. In Engendering Caribbean History, Verene A. Shepherd builds on her previous collaborative work with …
Freedoms Won
Written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians, Freedoms Won is an essential book for students engaged in following courses on the history of the Caribbean. It will also be …
Liberties Lost
Written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians, Liberties Lost is an essential book for students engaged in following courses on the history of the Caribbean. It will also be …
I Want to Disturb My Neighbour
This collection of 21 papers, selected from presentations internationally, reflect the depth and focus of Professor Shepherd's work over the past ten years, in the areas of …
I Want to Disturb My Neighbour
In this aptly titled collection of papers, Verene Shepherd shuns the usual role of the cloistered academic to engage readers on a range of issues relevant to Jamaica’s historical …
Introduction to Reparation for Secondary Schools
No study of Caribbean history can be complete without an examination and appreciation of the topic of reparation. The opposition to reparation by former colonial powers and others, …
Questioning Creole
In his seminal work, The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, Kamau Brathwaite attempted to expose the essential ""Jamaican"" nature of the identity that developed at the …
Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic
This is a completely revised and expanded version of Caribbean Slave Society and Economy which has become a standard text in colleges and universities on both sides of the …
The Gibson Relays
The Gibson Relays is arguably the best run track and field meet in Jamaica, and this annual relay carnival is also the longest-running athletic event in Jamaica, next to the ISSA …
Lucille Mathurin Mair
Lucille Mathurin Mair (née Walrond) made a mammoth contribution to women in Jamaica and across the world. In this biography, Verene Shepherd traces Mair's evolving ideology through …