A Concise History of Jamaica

by Kenneth Morgan

Kenneth Morgan's history of Jamaica is a social, economic, political, and cultural assessment of the island's most important periods and themes over the past millennium. This includes the island's development before 1500, with detailed material on the Taino society; the two centuries of slavery and its aftermath between 1660 and 1860; the continuance of colonialism between 1860 and 1945; the background to Jamaican independence between 1945 and 1960;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108472257
• ISBN13: 9781108472258
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.6"