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Jamaica in 1687: The Taylor Manuscript at the National Library of Jamaica
ISBN: 9789766402365 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This remarkable description of Jamaica in the late 1680s was written by a contemporary English observer, John Taylor, who spent some months on the island. The original manuscript is held by the National Library of Jamaica, and has rarely been used by scholars. It contains information about Jamaica under the Spaniards, about the English invasion of 1655 and about the formation of the subsequent society, including the treatment of slaves. There are sections on the island's settlement and architecture, including a particularly full description of Port Royal. John Taylor sets out fifty current...
This remarkable description of Jamaica in the late 1680s was written by a contemporary English observer, John Taylor, who spent some months on the isl...
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140,83 |
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Emancipation in the West Indies: A Six Months' Tour in Antigua, Barbados, and Jamaica, in the Year 1837
ISBN: 9781108016704 / Angielski / Miękka / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A key American text on the abolition of slavery, describing in detail how emancipation had worked in the West Indies.
A key American text on the abolition of slavery, describing in detail how emancipation had worked in the West Indies.
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313,38 |
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The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica
ISBN: 9781568586564 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published: London: Faber and Faber, 2009.
Originally published: London: Faber and Faber, 2009.
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94,98 |
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Export/Import Trends and Economic Development in Trinidad, 1919-1939
ISBN: 9789768125910 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally submitted to Balliol College, Oxford University, as a thesis in 1958; published in this book for the first time.
Originally submitted to Balliol College, Oxford University, as a thesis in 1958; published in this book for the first time.
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213,75 |
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They Do as They Please: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom After Morant Bay
ISBN: 9789766402457 / Angielski / Miękka / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book is a companion volume to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004"--P. [4] of cover.
"This book is a companion volume to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004"--P. [4] of cover.
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213,75 |
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They Do as They Please: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom After Morant Bay
ISBN: 9789766402440 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book is a companion volume to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004"--P. [4] of cover.
"This book is a companion volume to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004"--P. [4] of cover.
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281,76 |
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West Indian Business History: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9789766402402 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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163,63 |
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A History of Money and Banking in Barbados, 1627-1973
ISBN: 9789766402396 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,54 |
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British-Controlled Trinidad and Venezuela: A History of Economic Interests and Subversion, 1830-1962
ISBN: 9789766402372 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
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204,03 |
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The Jamaican Theatre: Highlights of the Performing Arts in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9789766402266 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides a panorama of performance from the imported touring companies nad fledgling local elitist groups of the 1920s and 1930s, to the birth of the Little Theatre Movement during the war years; from the small, ambitious groups of the 1950s and 1960s to the thriving commercial roots theatre of the twenty-first century.
Provides a panorama of performance from the imported touring companies nad fledgling local elitist groups of the 1920s and 1930s, to the birth of the ...
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247,07 |
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Slavery and Freedom in the British West Indies
ISBN: 9781108020695 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An active Member of Parliament from 1857, Charles Buxton (1822 1871) was the third son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, a well-known and popular philanthropist (several of whose books are reissued in this collection). Buxton inherited his father's interest in social welfare. He owned property in Co. Kerry, Ireland, and became a strong advocate for reform of the Irish Church, and the introduction of a national education system. Buxton also followed his father in supporting the anti-slavery movement. He published this short work in 1860 in response to critics of the abolition of slavery. He argues...
An active Member of Parliament from 1857, Charles Buxton (1822 1871) was the third son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, a well-known and popular philanthr...
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166,77 |
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The British West India Colonies in Connection with Slavery, Emancipation, Etc.
ISBN: 9781108020701 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stephen Bourne (1791 1868) was a British civil servant who served as a magistrate in Jamaica between 1834 and 1841 and as Registrar of British Guiana between 1841 and 1848. His daughter Elizabeth Campbell left England with her father in 1834, and lived in the West Indies for thirteen years. This volume contains two essays and a published letter, the essays written by Elizabeth Campbell and the letter by Stephen Bourne, discussing the effects and limits of the Emancipation Act on the economy and society of the British West Indies. The two essays by Campbell discuss the limited social effects...
Stephen Bourne (1791 1868) was a British civil servant who served as a magistrate in Jamaica between 1834 and 1841 and as Registrar of British Guiana ...
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176,94 |
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The Remedy: Being a Sequel to the African Slave Trade
ISBN: 9781108024327 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Fowell Buxton, M.P. (1786 1845) was a philanthropist who had many connections with the Quaker movement through the family of his wife, who was the sister of Henry Gurney and Elizabeth Fry. He was a passionate opponent of slavery, and campaigned to end it at a time when most British people believed that enough had been done by the abolition of British slave trading in 1807. The Remedy, first published in 1840, called on the government to do more to assist African development, so that African chiefs' participation in the trade would be reduced. Many African rulers believed that slavery...
Thomas Fowell Buxton, M.P. (1786 1845) was a philanthropist who had many connections with the Quaker movement through the family of his wife, who was ...
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212,28 |
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An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo
ISBN: 9781108023221 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since the sugar industry relied heavily on it. An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo was published in 1797. St Domingo (now Haiti) had been one of the most prosperous West Indian economies, producing more sugar and coffee than all the British West Indies combined. The harsh treatment of the slaves under the French code noir led to a widespread revolt in 1791, in part inspired by the French Revolution. An alliance...
Bryan Edwards (1743 1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since t...
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192,06 |
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Dutch Guiana
ISBN: 9781108024358 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Gifford Palgrave (1826 1888) was a renowned traveller and Arabic scholar. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1846 he received a lieutenant's commission in the 8th Bombay Regiment of native infantry, but he converted to Roman Catholicism, and settled in Syria as a missionary in 1855, during which time he travelled across Arabia. After renouncing Catholicism in 1865, he began a career with the British foreign service, working in several positions in the Far East. This volume, first published in 1876, contains Palgrave's account of his visit to Dutch Guiana, now the...
William Gifford Palgrave (1826 1888) was a renowned traveller and Arabic scholar. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1846 he received...
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192,06 |
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The Opportunity, or Reasons for an Immediate Alliance with St. Domingo
ISBN: 9781108024365 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Stephen (1758 1832) was a British lawyer and slavery abolitionist. After qualifying for the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1782 Stephen sailed for St Kitts in 1783. The atrocities committed against slaves which he witnessed in the West Indies converted him to the abolitionist cause, and after his return to England in 1794 he campaigned on behalf of the abolition movement. This volume, first published in 1804, contains Stephen's discussion of Britain's political choices following the successful Haitian Revolution (1791 1804). Before the Revolution, Haiti was one of the wealthiest colonies in...
James Stephen (1758 1832) was a British lawyer and slavery abolitionist. After qualifying for the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1782 Stephen sailed for St K...
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176,94 |
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An Account of the Present State of the Island of Puerto Rico
ISBN: 9781108024396 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1834 survey of Puerto Rico presents a very flattering view of Spanish colonial policies in the West Indies.
This 1834 survey of Puerto Rico presents a very flattering view of Spanish colonial policies in the West Indies.
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247,66 |
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Letters from the Havana, During the Year 1820: Containing an Account of the Present State of the Island of Cuba, and Observations on the Slave Trade
ISBN: 9781108024402 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A detailed description of Cuban society and the impact of slavery on Cuba's economy, first published in 1821.
A detailed description of Cuban society and the impact of slavery on Cuba's economy, first published in 1821.
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176,94 |
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Maroon Teachers: Teaching the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans
ISBN: 9789766373405 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are many areas of the formal education system, at the secondary level, in which teaching the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans (TTEA) can be integrated in history, social studies, culture, heritage studies, human rights, literature, the Arts, geography, and science among others. In this book, the author uses the findings of a qualitative multi-site case study on teaching the TTEA in selected countries in the Caribbean and the Americas, Africa and Europe to offer readers and especially teachers, multiple understanding of this complex and emotive subject. This is done through an...
There are many areas of the formal education system, at the secondary level, in which teaching the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans (TTEA) can...
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126,13 |
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The English in the West Indies: Or, the Bow of Ulysses
ISBN: 9781108023702 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An eminent Victorian historian makes observations on the British West Indies, and comments on their peoples and government.
An eminent Victorian historian makes observations on the British West Indies, and comments on their peoples and government.
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262,88 |
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