"Along with in-depth studies of Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Jamaica, and Trinidad, Law and Employment provides comparative analysis of Latin American economics against a range of European countries and the United States. The book breaks new ground by quant…
The American Revolution not only marked the end of Britain’s control over thirteen rebellious colonies, but also the beginning of a division among subsequent historians that has long shaped our understanding of British America. Some historians have emphasized a continental appro…
My MA thesis explores the journey of spiked lutes from their genesis in West Africa, throughout the Middle Passage, and finally, to destinations in Jamaica. This thesis not only examines the physical evolution of what would become to be known as the Jamaican banza; it also evalu…
This dissertation examines femininity as mythological imagery, historical narrative, cultural cornerstone, and physical entity, both sexual and sexualized in a selection of short stories by Caribbean women authors who consider the French and Spanish Caribbean home. This study ai…
Caribbean immigrants comprise a significant and growing proportion of immigrants living and working in the United States of America. The Caribbean region itself has a rich history, distinctive heterogeneity, and unique ethnographic properties. Prior research on Caribbean migrant…
Increasingly communities are impacted by slow-onset and sudden hazards. With reports of disasters affecting millions of people and with severe impacts on lives and livelihoods, there is a focus on creating cities that make human settlement inclusive, safe, resilient and sustaina…
Life history traits are critical areas of study but are largely understudied and unknown in parrotfish species (Family Scaridae). Parrotfishes are protogynous sequential hermaphrodites commonly found on coral reefs worldwide. They serve as important herbivores and have substanti…
This project examines the role of plantations in modernist fiction. The plantation as a global space and site of exchange represents the need to reconceptualize definitions of modernity by problematizing peripheral spaces rather than viewing them as archaic colonial forms. Rathe…
This study looks at hybridity as an everyday interactional phenomenon using conversations on lived experience, amongst Black British people of Caribbean heritage between the ages of 16-40 who are from London, the Midlands and West Yorkshire. Black British identifications in talk…
This project examines the ways in which Black men in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora define themselves as gendered beings in their fiction and drama beginning with Richard Wright's publication of Native Son in 1940 to Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter published 1980. Blac…
This thesis explores black West Indian activism in London between 1931-1948. It does so through a focus on those black West Indian activists who involved themselves in the work of four campaigning political organisations, namely, the League of Coloured Peoples (LCP), the Interna…
The investment needs of the water and sanitation sector and the financing constraints facing many developing countries were important catalysts for the promotion of private investment during the 1990s. Towards the end of the decade however, the flow of private capital began to d…
The Late Quaternary has been a period of significant change for terrestrial mammals, including episodes of extinction, population sub-division and colonisation. Studying this period provides a means to improve understanding of evolutionary mechanisms, and to determine processes …
