"The book focuses on the history of Jamaica during the years between Tacky's Revolt, the American Revolution, and the beginnings of parliamentary abolitionist legislation in 1788"--.
Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-punk. Evolving as a mixing and sound processing technology within reggae, dub has become ubiquitous within contemporary popular music, particularly within the endlessly ecl…
Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-punk. Evolving as a mixing and sound processing technology within reggae, dub has become ubiquitous within contemporary popular music, particularly within the endlessly ecl…
An ethnographic study of cultural policy in Jamaica as seen from above and below in relation to race, class, and nation.
A comparative history of Jamaica and Saint-Domingue -- The plantation world -- Urban life -- The Seven Years' War in the West Indies -- Dangerous internal enemies -- Racial reconfigurations before the American Revolution -- The golden age of the plantocracy -- The American Revol…
Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters, merchants, and official…
