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In this second volume, Beckles assesses what impact the globalization of cricket has had on the cricketers of the Caribbean. He also describes the emergence of what he argues is a debilitating...

This is a book about breathing new life into texts from the past. It demonstrates that meaning in the universe of art is not fixed but volatile, contradictory, unsettled (and sometimes unsettling)...

In The Economic Development of Barbados, Michael Howard discusses mainly economic factors influencing Barbadian economic development since the Second World War. He provides an interpretation of the...

First published in 1965, this classic work by William Demas, former president of the Caribbean Development Bank and committed regional integrationist, was released in a limited edition and has been...

The Fiction of Robert Antoni: Writing in the Estuary is the first full-length study of the work of this important Trinidadian/ Bahamian Caribbean writer. When his first novel, Divina Trace, appeared...

Introduction -- Explaining land use change and reforestation -- Before bananas -- Post-war changes in forests and land use -- Banana booms and busts -- Land tenure, tree planting and forest...

The Grooming of a Chancellor is Sir George Alleyne's autobiography. He was born in 1932 in St Philip, Barbados, the first of the seven children of Eileen, a homemaker, and Clinton Alleyne, a...

In 2012, the Guild of Students at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, a milestone it shared with the national and regional...

Every island of the Caribbean is the site of a deep haunting. Before Columbus, the various indigenous peoples - the Arawaks, the Caribs, the Tainos - lived in relative harmony with the land, the sea...

The dominant school of thought is that the foreign policies of large nations, are - with the exception of symbolic gestures and acts of 'generosity' - impervious to the policy priorities of small...

This book describes the period in Jamaica's history that follows the abolition of slavery, up to the introduction of universal adult suffrage. These years, which have been called the "quiet years",...

The late Wycliffe Bennett (1922-2009), widely regarded as the godfather of the Jamaican theatre in the second half of the twentieth century, brings all his experience and insight to this last,...

This is the first comprehensive historical assessment of the career of Eric Williams, the scholar and statesman. Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1911, Eric Williams published his classic work...

Alfred H. Mendes was a member of the Beacon group of writers in Trinidad in the 1930s and friend and colleague of C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissiere. He was a prolific writer, with a distinctive and...

If any doubt remains, the story of Trinidad and Tobago should dispel the illusion that money and technical assistance can launch a new station in the world community. This work seeks to probe the...

Against the background of social, cultural and ecclesiastical influences, this book describes the development of Christian churches in the English-speaking Caribbean during the entire colonial era,...

This classic examination of the freedmen in the slavesociety of Barbados was first published in 1974 and has not been widelyavailable for years. Reissued now with a new introduction by Melanie...

This work discusses the effectiveness of the sets of policies employed by the government over a fifty-year period spanning 1958 to 2008 in the effort to foster the growth and development of the...

Author: Douglas HallPublisher: University of the West Indies PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 1998Number of Pages: 148 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9766400733ISBN-13: 9789766400736

This book documents the commitment and struggles for recognition and respect of a small cohort of dedicated feminist scholars, each of them powerful academics and leaders, as they collaborated to...

Argues that in content and orientation islands' educational system during colonial period was geared more to the metropole than to the local situation. Uses career and initiatives of J.O. Cutteridge,...

This is a textbook designed for undergraduate and graduate students and is the result of the author's more than twenty years of involvement with econometrics as both teacher and researcher. It...

W. Adolphe Roberts (1886-1962) was a prolific writer - poet, novelist, journalist, historian. As a political activist he also laid the groundwork for Jamaican independence. Finally published,...

"Primary sources on English Jamaica in the seventeenth century are extremely rare, especially ones reproduced in print. The University of the West Indies Press has performed a significant service in...

Ties That Bind signals a shift from the traditional focus by historians of the family on family forms and structure and instead assesses the relationships and interactions within black family...

This volume "represents a new research configuration that is vital to any understanding of the terms 'independence', 'sovereignty', and 'nationhood'...The Report offers several recommendations for...

Tobago in Wartime 1793-1815Author: K. O. LaurencePublisher: University of the West Indies PressPublication Date: 34912Number of Pages: 288 pagesBinding: HistoryISBN-10: 9766400032ISBN-13:...

This comprehensive text is vital reading for managers, academics, consultants, and students involved in the growing tourism and hospitality sector in the Caribbean. In twenty-four articles, the book...

This work is a collection of selected papers presented at the conference "Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007", a theme inspired by the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition...

There is little if any research internationally, regionally, or locally on the factors that facilitate or inhibit the educator in transitioning from an untrained, experienced practitioner to a...