A Concise History of Jamaica

By:

Kenneth Morgan

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Concise Histories

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Kenneth Morgan's history of Jamaica is a social, economic, political, and cultural assessment of the island's most important periods and themes over the past millennium. This includes the island's development before 1500, with detailed material on the Taino society; the two centuries of slavery and its aftermath between 1660 and 1860; the continuance of colonialism between 1860 and 1945; the background to Jamaican independence between 1945 and 1960; and the evolution of Jamaica as an independent nation since the early 1960s. Throughout, Morgan discusses important themes such as race, slavery, empire, poverty, and colonialism, and the unbalanced social structure that existed for much of Jamaica's history – the small, overwhelmingly white elite overseeing and controlling the lives of black and brown people beneath them on the social scale. Ending with an assessment of the contemporary period, this work offers an authoritative, up-to-date history of Jamaica.

Author Biography:

Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University London. An economic and social historian of the Atlantic world between 1650 and 1850, he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Release date Australia

December 14th, 2023

Author

Kenneth Morgan

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

304

Series

Cambridge Concise Histories

Dimensions

147x223x30

ISBN-13

9781108472258

Product ID

36644281

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