Jamaica

The Kebra Nagast is a sacred text originally written in 14th century Ethiopia. It tells the story of how the Queen of Sheba met the biblical King Solomon, and relates the birth of her son, Menilek, who became the legendary king of Ethiopia. A work of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768100306Author Phillips SherlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ian Randle Publishers,JamaicaPublisher Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica

Prepared specifically to support social studies and geography courses at upper primary and lower secondary levels throughout the Caribbean. The atlas is fully illustrated and includes the most up to date reference and thematic mapping of the...

A study of the Maroon Wars and the many slave rebellions and revolts in Jamaica. Richard Hart seeks to avoid polemics and emphasizes that the Jamaican rebels forced the British government to reset the agenda for emancipation and the slaves gained their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768332240Author Courtney HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Bambusparks PublishingPublisher Bambusparks PublishingWeight(grams)...

From stationmaster's daughter to wife of one of Jamaica's most charismatic prime ministers, Beverley Manley's life has been an odyssey. As a young girl, starved of her mother's love because she was darker than her siblings and forced to do housework...

It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141725Author Bill HowellFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

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Healthcare and hierarchy in Caribbean plantation slavery From their inception, British Caribbean sugar plantations generated wealth on the basis of nightmarish systems of labor exploitation, where illness was a constant of enslaved life. Then, in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956884234Author Vansworth McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Imprint Productions IncPublisher Imprint Productions IncWeight(grams) 744g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461358186Author Price PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress Ltd