Charlton, John
6,20€
Hyacinth is the daughter of a Jamaican plantation owner and one of his slaves and is married to a sailor who deserted the British Navy and settled in Jamaica.
The story is set in the early 19th century.
Hyacinth incurs the hostility of her half-brothers who see her as a threat to their authority…
Charlton, John
6,20€
Hyacinth is the daughter of a Jamaican plantation owner and one of his slaves and is married to a sailor who deserted the British Navy and settled in Jamaica.
The story is set in the early 19th century.
Hyacinth incurs the hostility of her half-brothers who see her as a threat to their authority…
Bean, Dalea
118,65€
…‘Doing Their Little Bit’: Women’s Organisation of Jamaican World War I Efforts
Dalea Bean
4. ‘Masculine Duties and Feminine Powers’: Gender and Recruiting Efforts During World War I
Dalea Bean
5. ‘Votes for (Some) Women Now!’ The Road…
Seacole, Mary Jane
2,20€
The autobiography of Mary Jane Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who travelled great distances in order to heal the sick and wounded during the Crimean War.
This was the first autobiography to be written by a black woman in Britain.
Morris, Mervyn
8,40€
The career of Louise Bennett ('Miss Lou') is an essential component in any reckoning of Jamaican culture. This book offers a brief account of her life (1919-2006): a story of challenges and blessings, of a journey towards national and international acclaim. It draws on a variety of sources,…
Larke-Walsh, George S.
42,35€
A companion to the study of the gangster film’s international appeal spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia
A Companion to the Gangster Film presents a comprehensive overview of the newest scholarship on the contemporary gangster film genre as…
Carpenter, Karen
109,10€
Table of contents
1. Situating Sexuality in the Caribbean
Karen Carpenter
2. Gender-Role Stereotypes and Culture in Jamaica and Barbados
G. K. Walters, K. Carpenter
3. Emotional-Social Intelligence and Sexuality Among Jamaican Adolescents
Samantha Longman-Mills
4. Women Who Have Sex with Women in Jamaica…
Fletcher, M.W.
4,45€
The brutal killing of a British Bobby on the streets of London on New Year’s Day by a Jamaican Yardie is further complicated when it becomes known who his older brother is. The culprit goes to ground as the Police scour the streets of Brixton for him; he finally escapes the country to…
Fletcher, M.W.
4,45€
The brutal killing of a British Bobby on the streets of London on New Year’s Day by a Jamaican Yardie is further complicated when it becomes known who his older brother is. The culprit goes to ground as the Police scour the streets of Brixton for him; he finally escapes the country to…
Rosenberg, Leah Reade
98,10€
Table of contents
1. Introduction: The Power of Exile
Leah Reade Rosenberg
2. “Under the Hog Plum Tree”: Literary Claims for Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad
Leah Reade Rosenberg
3. The Accidental Modernist: Thomas MacDermot and Jamaican Literature
Leah Reade Rosenberg
4. Herbert’s…
