The Confounding Island

The Confounding Island
Author: Orlando Patterson
Publisher: Belknap Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674988051

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Orlando Patterson returns to Jamaica, his birthplace, to reckon with its history and culture. Locals claim to be some of the world's happiest people, and their successes in music and athletics are legendary. Yet the country remains violent and poor. In Jamaica the dilemmas of globalization and postcolonial politics are thrown into stark relief.


The Confounding Island
Language: en
Pages: 433
Authors: Orlando Patterson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Belknap Press

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Orlando Patterson returns to Jamaica, his birthplace, to reckon with its history and culture. Locals claim to be some of the world's happiest people, and their
The Confounding Island
Language: en
Pages: 433
Authors: Orlando Patterson
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-12 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The preeminent sociologist and National Book Award–winning author of Freedom in the Making of Western Culture grapples with the paradox of his homeland: its r
Slavery and Social Death
Language: en
Pages: 407
Authors: Orlando Patterson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association Co-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Scie
Surviving Paradise
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Peter Rudiak-Gould
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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Just one month after his 21st birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, ca
Cuba, Hot and Cold
Language: en
Pages: 129
Authors: Tom Miller
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-10 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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"A collection of renowned travel writer Tom Miller's best musings on the history and culture of Cuba"--Provided by publisher.