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Dame Eugenia Charles was the female prime minister in the Caribbean. This book features nine essays that capture critical elements of her life and times and her motivations as prime minister of Dominica. It reveals an admiration for her as a purpose-driven female leader, who never acted out of malice or vindictiveness.

Haiti, its revolution and its culture remain largely unknown or misunderstood in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays seeks to elucidate aspects of Haitian history and culture and addresses questions, such as: What were, what are the cultural repercussions of Haiti's revolution, in Haiti and elsewhere?

Discusses mainly economic factors influencing Barbadian economic development since the Second World War. This work provides an interpretation of the role of foreign investment and public policy in the development process, within the conceptual framework of institutional structural analysis.

The Caribbean Heritage series is designed to publish new editions of historically significant works of fiction from our region. The first three volumes in the series comprise four Trinidadian novels published between 1838 and 1907.

This book offers a preliminary overview of writing by white West Indians, identifying stereotypes and relating Anthony C. Winkler's books to prevalent trends demonstrated by other white West Indians.

An examination of the cultural evolution of the Jamaican people after the explosive uprising at Morant Bay in 1865. For the first time, the specific methods used by British imperial legislators to inculcate order, control and identity in the local society are described and analysed.

The book presents a representative selection of the papers presented at the second Conference on Caribbean Culture in honour of Kamau Brathwaite.

This guide indicates the ways in which Jamaican Creole differs from Standard Jamaican English. It is organized into four sections: words that look alike but mean different thing; words that are different but mean the same things; grammatical structures that are different but convey the same information; and idiomatic Speech or writing.

his book is a study of how African slave and freed women used their fashion and style of dressing as a symbol of resistance to slavery and accommodation to white culture in pre and post-emancipation society. Africans brought aspects of their culture such as folklore, music, language, religion and dress with them to the Americas.

This volume reports on contemporary research by geographers and others into resource management and planning issues in the Caribbean region. The common theme is the search for developmental strategies that focus on social and economic needs without further deterioration of the resource base.

A collection of lectures delivered between 1987 and 1998. The book is divided into two sections: slavery and freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and gender.

The essays in this volume consider various literary and linguistic aspects of the Francophone Caribbean at the beginning of the 21st century. It covers such topics as Caribbean literary movements and the dynamics of the respective roles of Creole and the European standard language.

Originally published in 1992, this text considers out-migration from the Caribbean in an analytical manner. Its comparative approach, involving three islands (Jamaica, Barbados and St Vincent) and the range of micro-environments within those islands, is based on extensive surveys and interviews.

An introduction to the theory and practice of classical and modern econometric methods. It seeks to help the reader: understand the scope and limitations of econometrics; read, write and interpret articles and reports of an applied econometric nature; and to build upon the elements introduced.

Following the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, a concerted effort was made to replace enslaved labour with indentured Indian labour. This is the story of one Indian woman's tragic experience in trying to immigrate to the Caribbean in the 19th century.

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 analyzes significant initiatives, trends and the challenges facing education and training institutions in the Caribbean. Chapters on sustainable tourism, environmental management and national resource development cover a wide variety of critical topics facing the industry. Case studies from The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands provide a diverse perspective for academics, policymakers and the regional tourism sector.

A multidisciplinary study that analyzes and identifies some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the Caribbean. The work is based on primary and secondary sources, oral interviews, letters and diaries, folktales, proverbs, songs, and transatlantic comparative data.

In 1987 St Vincent's Prime Minister called for a merging of the Eastern Caribbean countries into one state. Through interviews and analyses of primary documents, this work examines the jealousies and conflicting economic priorities which ultimately destroyed the movement for political unification.

This novel, published in 1838, chronicles the adventures of Warner Arundell, a white Creole of British descent, born in Grenada and brought up in Antigua and Trinidad. He studies law in Venezuela and medicine in England, then goes to seek his fortune. The novel is annotated and contextualized.

This collection of 18 essays emphasises the relevance of history to everyday life and the development of a national identity, culture and economy. The essays are organized in three sections: historiography and sources; society, culture and heritage; and economy, labour and politics.

A critical appreciation of the work of Derek Walcott's Caribbean phase (1946-81). It examines Walcott's use of metaphor, by which he focuses on the juxtaposition of his concern with a regional history of negation and his immersion in the Western literary and cultural tradition of the colonizer.

A layman's guide to commercial arbitration in the Caribbean. The author draws together the various practical and, to a lesser extent, legal aspects of the regional laws, procedures and rules of arbitration and its offshoots: adjudication, mediation and conciliation.

This collection of papers in honour of Professor Robert Le Page addresses various topics in the field of English and Creole linguistics in the Caribbean. It includes sections on language in education, speakers' behaviours in informal discourse and language structure.

A sophisticated comparative study of the Cuban, Nicaraguan and Grenadian revolutions, using techniques derived from J. S. Mill and perfected by Theda S. Skopol. Despite the unfulfilled promise of all three revolutions, they do suggest that people have the potential to make history and affect positive changes.

The birth of the Caribbean Geological Conference in 1955 was a landmark in the search for geoscientific knowledge in the region. The proceedings of this conference continue to uncover many aspects of the Caribbean that remain virtually untouched and address questions that remain unanswered. This volume reports the most recent research on Caribbean geology, presented at the Fifteenth Caribbean Geological Conference held in 1998. The 24 research papers shed new light in the areas of plate tectonics, structural geology, metamorphic and igneous petrology, paleontology, biostratigraphy, economic geology, geochemistry, mineralogy, geologic hazards and geoscience education.

Characterized by fast-paced, highly danceable rhythms, chutney is a fusion of traditional and contemporary Indian and Caribbean influences. In this volume Tina K. Ramnarine explores the evolution of chutney and introduces the emerging Indian-Caribbean genre into the area of scholarly discourse.

Based on actual experiences from the perspectives of both students and teachers, this collection of ethnographic research articles provides a close-up view of Jamaican schools and classrooms.

An analysis of contemporary social, political and intellectual resistance to hegemony in Caribbean societies. Beginning with the Henry Rebellion in 1960, Brian Meeks shows how popular resistance to domination was manifested in Jamaica and Trinidad until the end of the 20th century.

This volume looks at underdevelopment in plantation economies of the Third World.

In this work, Ramesh Deosaran describes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of poverty. He uses what he terms "photosociology" as a tool for painstaking research, and he presents "profiles of poverty" which effectively match the stark faces of the poor to statistical data.