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 This Is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's MusicBest Price: $10.10 A wonderful book which not only traces the history of reggae but delves into the fascinating and... |  Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (Music Culture)Best Price: $17.53 This is a book written by an academic, but it has applications for anyone interested in this... |  In Focus Jamaica: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture (The in Focus Guides Series)Best Price: $10.36 Very good look at the history and overview of the makings of the most beautiful country we've... |  The Portuguese Jews of JamaicaBest Price: $14.04 This is the first comprehensive account of the Jewish population of Jamaica and its role in the... |  Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican WorldBest Price: $17.95 This is an absolutely brilliant book, and I do not use that word lightly. It is must reading... |
 Lost White Tribes : The End of Privilege and the Last Colonials in Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Brazil, Haiti, Namibia, and GuadeloupeBest Price: $29.95 Forgotten pockets of culture in unlikely places are brought to light in Riccardo Orizio's book,... |  Mary Seacole: The Black Woman Who Invented Modern NursingBest Price: $10.39 This was an interesting read on a woman of color who was clearly passionate about her mission. ... |  Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley ReaderBest Price: $8.08 In contrast to Rita Marley's No Woman No Cry, which is on the inside looking out, Every Little... |  Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in JamaicaBest Price: $12.25 This is an excellant book, written by a genuinely knowledgeable scholar of dancehall music and... |  The Modern CaribbeanBest Price: $14.00 This collection of thirteen original essays by experts in the field of Caribbean studies... |
 The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican MaroonsBest Price: $20.00 This is an exceptional book on the history of Queen Nanny. This book provides a great account... |  Rastafari: Roots and Ideology (Utopianism and Communitarianism)Best Price: $10.00 THIS BOOK IS A VERY DETAILED LOOK INTO THE LIFE OF RASTAFRIANISM. AT TIMES IT SEEMS TO DRAG ALOT... |  The Story of the Jamaican PeopleBest Price: $22.94 I very much appreciate the thoughtful and deliberate way the text invites you into the human... |  The Rough Guide to Reggae 3 (Rough Guide Music Guides) (Rough Guide Reference)When one realizes the amount of reggae music one can find today, it can be a bit overwhelming... |  Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (Yale Center for British Art)Best Price: $59.78 This truly fantastic exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art is comitted to paper in a... |
 Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage and CultureBest Price: $27.53 Jamaica's rich history has been the subject of many books, articles and papers. This collection... |  The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic SlaveryBest Price: $25.22 What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In The Reaper's Garden ,... |  A Voice at the Workplace: Reflections on Colonialism and the Jamaican WorkerBest Price: $14.53 |  Jamaica's Michael Manley: The Great Transformation (1972-92Best Price: $8.77 |  Jamaica Bay (NY) (Images of America)Best Price: $12.91 First saw the book at a friends house, knew I had to buy it after the first couple pages. ... |
 Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at LargeBest Price: $24.97 I have never had more mixed feelings about a book than about this, a collection of essays... |  Bob Marley: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)Best Price: $28.00 I thought that the book really explained more than just the musical side of Bob that we all... |  Reggae Routes PbBest Price: $20.24 Reggae Routes is by far the best written and most entertaining book on reggae. Unlike so many... |  Jamaica In Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)Best Price: $20.20 |  Jamaican Warriors : Reggae, Roots & CultureBest Price: $4.01 Take a vicarious trip to Jamaica with this book! Stephen Foehr travels to the heart of Jamaican... |
 Young, Gifted, and Black: The Story of Trojan RecordsBest Price: $0.99 From my review in Scoot! Magazine: Tighten Up takes over where Young, Gifted and Black left... |  The Killing Time: The Morant Bay Rebellion in JamaicaBest Price: $19.00 |  Dread Talk: The Language of RastafariBest Price: $15.24 With Dread Talk, Velma Pollard has done a remarkable job of both describing the language of... |  Tales of Old JamaicaBest Price: $7.95 |  The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)Best Price: $14.50 Holt studies Jamaica,from the emanicpation of the slaves to the labor problems faced by... |
 Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican MusicBest Price: $25.00 Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, the Itals, the Ethiopians-they all dropped dazzling... |  When Banana Was King: A Jamaican Banana King in Jim Crow AmericaBest Price: $12.63 'When Banana Was King' is a refreshing book: the best I've read in a long time. It's a... |  No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 17801870 (Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies)Best Price: $17.90 Paton looks at an ignored aspect of emancipation. Not in the US, as an American reader might... |  Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)Best Price: $45.95 Mary Seacole's reputation after the Crimean War certainly rivalled that of her counterpart... |  Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in JamaicaBest Price: $4.93 Based on historical research and more than thirty years of anthropological fieldwork, this... |
 Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and JamaicaBest Price: $24.70 This well written book makes accessible a fascinating period of history -- the fate of slaves in... |  From Babylon to Rastafari: Origin and History of the Rastafarian MovementBest Price: $45.76 For someone like myself, who knows a little about Rasta, and would like to know more this is a... |  History Civil and Commercial of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Dublin, 1793-94 (Research Library of Colonial Americana)Best Price: $87.95 |  Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation SocietiesBest Price: $17.95 In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas... |  Jamaica Underground: The Caves, Sinkholes and Underground Rivers of the IslandBest Price: $45.00 A monument! For every caver just dreaming to go caving to Ja this is a must have. Tons and tons... |
 Male Underachievement in High School Education: In Jamaica, Barbados, and st Vincent and the GrenadinesBest Price: $17.99 Statistics show that West Indian boys do not do as well in school and go to college less than... |  The Development of Creole Society, 1770-1820Best Price: $24.95 This book is a study in depth of a colonial 'plantation' during fifty critical years of slavery... |  The Politics of Change: A Jamaican TestamentBest Price: $20.24 |  Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican ChildhoodRachel Manley, granddaughter and daughter of two of Jamaica's national leaders, tells the story... |  Jamaica Plain, MABest Price: $50.00 When I wrote this book on Jamaica Plain, MA I was amazed at the rich history of this... |
 The cruise of the "Port Kingston" |  A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794Best Price: $14.26 Captain Samuel Gamble recorded in his ship's log a record of a nearly failed slaving venture to... |  Port Royal: The Sunken CityBest Price: $23.06 The true story of the city of Port Royal in Jamaica. In 1692 an earthquake and tidal wave caused... |  Alas, Alas, Kongo: A Social History of Indentured African Immigration into Jamaica, 1841-1865 (Study in Atlantic History & Culture) |  Jamaica Plain: Then & Now (MA) (Then & Now)Jamaica Plain covers a Boston neighborhood once known as the 'Eden of America', which was a part... |
 Reggae: The Story of Jamaican MusicBest Price: $13.99 This is one of my prize possessions and I take it with me to concerts to get the artist to sign... |  Back to Africa: George Ross and the Maroons : From Nova Scotia to Sierra LeoneBest Price: $8.81 |  Lady Nugent's Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805Best Price: $30.00 Lady Nugent's husband was governor of Jamaica, the most important of the highly prized British... |  Reggae Explosion: The Story of Jamaican Music...but if you're looking for a decent history of reggae and reggae artists, this is NOT the... |  Bob Marley: Talking (Bob Marley in His Own Words)Best Price: $8.95 This is a great read. It's been years since I've owned it, and I'm glad to have once again run... |
 History of JamaicaBest Price: $15.55 This new edition of the authoritative HISTORY OF JAMAICA covers the whole of the history of the... |  Garvey, His Work and ImpactBest Price: $5.95 Twenty one articles deal with the historical background to Garvey and Garveyism, women in the... |  Culture @ the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular MusicBest Price: $19.95 I was drawn to this book firstly through its title. Since many books on caribbean pop culture... |  Culture and Customs of Jamaica (Culture and Customs of Latin America and the Caribbean)Best Price: $45.00 Jamaica is known widely for its beautiful beaches and reggae music scene, but there is much more... | |
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