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  • Freedom's Children

    The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica

    by Colin A. Palmer ...
    Freedom’s Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica’s watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica’s disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial society to recognize their grievances. The rebellion produced two rival leaders who dominated ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book

    Includes Freedom's Children, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power, and Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean

    by Colin A. Palmer ...
    Colin A. Palmer was a leading historian of the Caribbean and the African diaspora. Freedom’s Children joins Palmer’s Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean and Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power in chronicling the history of British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean

    by Colin A. Palmer ...
    Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911–81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago’s first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation’s first prime minister. Before entering politics, he was a professor at Howard University and wrote several books, including the classic Capitalism and Slavery. In the first ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Inward Yearnings

    Jamaica's Journey to Nationhood

    by Colin A. Palmer ...
    Inward Yearnings: Jamaica’s Journey to Nationhood is a pioneering case study of an Anglo-Caribbean island’s search for a racial selfhood, its nervous embrace of its African heritage and ultimately a nationalism that reflected those inner longings. These complex and interrelated processes manifested themselves with the founding of the Universal Negro Improvement Association by Marcus Garvey in 1914 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power

    British Guiana's Struggle for Independence

    by Colin A. Palmer ...
    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, here tells the story of British Guiana’s struggle for independence. At the center of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony’s first premier following the institution of universal adult suffrage in 1953.Informed by the first use of many British, U.S., and Guyanese archival ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Water

    A Comprehensive Guide for Brewers

    by John J. Palmer, Colin Kaminski ...
    Series series Brewing Elements
    Water is arguably the most critical and least understood of the foundation elements in brewing. For many brewers used to choosing from a wide selection of hops and grain, water seems like an ingredient for which they have little choice but to accept what comes out of their faucet. But brewers in fact have many opportunities to modify their source water or to obtain mineral-free water and build ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The First Passage

    Blacks in the Americas 1502-1617

    by Colin A. Palmer ...
    Series series The ^AYoung Oxford History of African Americans
    The history of African Americans begins in Africa, a continent that was home to people with different languages, traditions, histories, and religions. They called themselves Twi, Yoruba, Zulu, Ashanti, and Kumba, among other names. In the early sixteenth century Europeans turned to Africa for the labor force needed to mine, cultivate, and process the bounty of natural resources in the newly ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition

    by Eric Williams ...
    Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Legacy of Eric Williams

    Caribbean Scholar and Statesman

    Edited by Colin A. Palmer ...
    The book consists of papers that were presented at All Souls College, Oxford on the occasion of the centenary of Eric William's birth. They draw upon recent research and either supported, modified or rejected Williams's conclusions in Capitalism and Slavery. ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Modern Caribbean

    Edited by Franklin W. Knight, Colin A. Palmer ...
    This collection of thirteen original essays by experts in the field of Caribbean studies clarifies the diverse elements that have shaped the modern Caribbean. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the complexities of race, politics, language, and environment that mark the region, the authors offer readers a thorough understanding of the Caribbean’s history and culture. The essays also ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Boats of South Asia

    by Sean Mcgrail, Lucy Blue, Eric Kentley, Colin Palmer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in South Asia
    This book sets new standards for the documentation of water transport, and introduces styles of boat-building which are unlikely to be found outside the sub-Continent. A fascinating and accessible read for anyone interested in boats or the South Asian way of life, as well as ethnographers, maritime archaeologists and historians, Boats of South Asia covers recent, exhaustive fieldwork in India, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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  • A Concise History of the Caribbean

    by B. W. Higman ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD