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The Rastafarians by Leonard E Barrett Publisher Comments The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica by Jean Besson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-376) and index.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica by Ian Thomson Publisher Comments Named the Dolman Travel Book of the Year, The Dead Yard paints an unforgettable portrait of modern Jamaica. Since independence, Jamaica has gradually become associated with twin images--a resort-style travel Eden for foreigners and a new kind of hell for... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island by Lorna Goodison Publisher Comments When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those running from slavery, he gives his name to what will become his family's home for generations. For Doris, Harvey River is the... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jamaican People 1880-1902 by P Bryan Publisher Comments This book describes the period in Jamaica's history that follows the abolition of slavery, up to the introduction of universal adult suffrage. These years are the least studied period of Jamaica's modern history, and Bryan provides a penetrating analysis... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900) by Gale L Kenny Publisher Comments The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Daughter of the Caribbean by Norma Jennings Publisher Comments Daughter of the Caribbean is a love letter that pays homage to the culture and heritage of the exotic, beautiful, and conflicting island paradise that is Jamaica. It is an epic story told through the eyes of a Jamaican native, Olivia, who was raised for... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island by Lorna Goodison Publisher Comments "Throughout her life my mother [Doris] lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up." In the tradition of Michael Ondaatje's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Race, Class & Political Symbols: Rastafari & Reggae in Jamaican Politics by Anita Waters Publisher Comments Dr. Waters is one of a new breed of analysts for whom the interpenetration of politics, culture, and national development is key to a larger integration of social research. Race, Class, and Political Symbols is a remarkably cogent examination of the uses... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rastafarians Rev & Updated Edition by Leonard E Barrett Publisher Comments The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Soul Rebels the Rastafari by William F Lewis List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney by Horace Campbell List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dead Yard Tales of Modern Jamaica Uk by Ian Thompson Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lionheart Gal Life Stories of Jamaican W by Honor Ford Smith Description Jamaèique Moeurs et coutumes.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jamaica in 1850: Or, the Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony by John Bigelow Publisher Comments After Jamaican slaves were fully emancipated in 1838, the local economy collapsed. Driven by a belief in the innate inferiority of the black race and bolstered by this apparently disastrous Jamaican example, Americans who defended slavery convinced many... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Voices in Exile #1: Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries by Jean Dcosta List Price $32.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Story of the Jamaican People by Philip Sherlock Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rastafarians: Sounds of Cultural Dissonance by Leonard Barrett Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rasta Heart by Robert Roskind Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jamaica Gallery by Philip Kappel Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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