University of the West Indies Press

Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to MemoryAuthor: Maureen Warner-LewisPublisher: University of the West Indies PressPublication Date: 36281Number of Pages: 279 pagesBinding: FictionISBN-10:...

Una Marson's work embodied anti-colonialism, anti-racism, feminism, class politics and pan-Africanism in the first half of the twentieth century. Her poetry and dramatic work symbolically ushered in...

In this text the authors assert that the Jamaican state is a form of predatory state that incorporates contradictory social forces into an arrangement that is hierarchical, often brutal and...

In 1803, during the Napoleonic Wars, the British imperial government conquered the Dutch colony of Berbice and took over the management of presumed governmental slaves. These consisted of persons on...

In Vodou Cosmology and the Haitian Revolution in the Enlightenment Ideals of Kant and Hegel, Vivaldi Jean-Marie begins with an interpretation of the rise of Vodou practices in Saint-Domingue which is...

Among the critical questions that Rodney dealt with whether he was in Tanzania, Jamaica or his native Guyana (formerly British Guiana) was the character of the postcolonial state and its relationship...

Author: Rupert C. LewisPublisher: University of the West Indies PressPublication Date: Sep 05, 2000Number of Pages: 56 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 9768125535ISBN-13: 9789768125538

Of all the islands in the Caribbean, Trinidad has experienced the most varied ethnocultural and linguistic history. Its relatively brief period of plantation slavery and extent of racial mixing have...

The study of business history as a distinct discipline is well established in many places but relatively neglected in the anglophone Caribbean. West Indian Business History: Essays in Enterprise and...

What Do Jamaican Children Speak? A Language Resource presents a profile of aspects of the lexicon and of the morphosyntax of the speech of Jamaican three-year-olds across the island in their first...

What was it like to be a small boy growing up in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1930's? When Me Was a Boy tells exactly what it was like. Charles Hyatt remembers his boyhood in vivid detail, and is his own...

"TT" Lewis, a white working class Barbadian hero, emerges from this biography as a curious, irreverent and ultimately unique product of a colonial society then notorious for its stifling distinctions...

Women and the Law: A Bibliographical Survey of Legal and Quasi-Legal MaterialAuthor: Joan A. BrathwaitePublisher: University of the West Indies PressPublication Date: 36281Number of Pages: 372...

This engaging publication is a pioneering work on the experiences of Grenadian women over two centuries of British colonialism, "Gairyism" and socialist revolution. It moves away from a narrow...

"The first detailed bibliography of books, unpublished reports, theses and articles written on women in Jamaica up to 1994. "There is no limitation in scope except that newspaper articles are...

World War II and the Caribbean focuses on one of the most exciting periods in the history of the region as the Caribbean territories faced incredible upheaval and opportunity during the war years...

Between 1939 and 1947, the Caribbean island of Jamaica - then a British colony - was haven or detention centre for thousands of displaced Europeans; an often under-recognized contribution to the...

The Spiritual Baptist Church, thought to be present in the English-speaking Caribbean from about the late nineteenth century, has long been a fairly potent force in the daily life of the islanders,...