History of Jamaica

by Clinton Vane de Brosse Black

Book Overview

This textbook is intended for secondary school students throughout the Caribbean.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582038987
• ISBN13: 9780582038981
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Quoted from the book's rear cover

This new edition of the authoritative HISTORY OF JAMAICA covers the whole of the history of the island from the arrival of the Arawaks a thousand years ago until the present day. That thousand year period has also seen the arrival of the spaniards and the extermination of the Amerindians, the coming of the British and the introduction of slavery, the fight for freedom and the achievement of independence. This story, with its many facets: the Buccaneers, the Maroons, the National Heroes and others, is told by the Government Archivist in a flowing narrative which is backed by a knowledge based on the closest contact with original documents.