Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Report on Jamaica
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: S. Steinberg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270891
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1696
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270891
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1696
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Annual Report on Jamaica
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-Book 1962
Author: S. Steinberg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270913
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1718
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270913
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1718
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book 1963
Author: S. Steinberg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270921
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1752
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270921
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1752
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book 1965-66
Author: S. Steinberg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270948
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1743
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270948
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1743
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book 1964-65
Author: S. Steinberg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023027093X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1734
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023027093X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1734
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Post-war Economic Development of Jamaica
Author: Owen Jefferson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-book
Author: Frederick Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1768
Book Description
To Hell With Paradise
Author: Frank Fonda Taylor
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822972476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In the course of the nineteenth century, Jamaica transformed itself from a pestilence-ridden "white man's graveyard" to a sun-drenched tourist paradise. Deftly combining economics with political and cultural history, Frank Fonda Taylor examines this puzzling about-face and explores the growth of the tourist industry into the 1990s. He argues that the transformations in image and reality were not accidental or due simply to nature's bounty. They were the result of a conscious decision to develop this aspect of Jamaica's economy.Jamaican tourism emerged formally at an international exhibition held on the island in 1891. The international tourist industry, based on the need to take a break from stressful labor and recuperate in healthful and luxurious surroundings, was a newly awakened economic giant. A group of Jamaican entrepreneurs saw its potential and began to cultivate a tourism psychology which has led, more than one hundred years later, to an economy dependent upon the tourist industry.The steamships that carried North American tourists to Jamaican resorts also carried U.S. prejudices against people of color. "To Hell with Paradise" illustrates the problems of founding a tourist industry for a European or U.S. clientele in a society where the mass of the population is poor, black, and with a historical experience of slavery and colonialism. By the 1990s, tourism had become the lifeblood of the Jamaican economy, but at an enormous cost: enclaves of privilege and ostentation that exclude the bulk of the local population, drug trafficking and prostitution, soaring prices, and environmental degradation. No wonder some Jamaicans regard tourism as a new kind of sugar.Taylor explores timely issues that have not been previously addressed. Along the way, he offers a series of valuable micro histories of the Jamaican planter class, the origins of agricultural dependency (on bananas), the growth of shipping and communications links, the process of race relations, and the linking of infrastructural development to tourism. The text is illustrated with period photographs of steamships and Jamaican tourist hotels.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822972476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In the course of the nineteenth century, Jamaica transformed itself from a pestilence-ridden "white man's graveyard" to a sun-drenched tourist paradise. Deftly combining economics with political and cultural history, Frank Fonda Taylor examines this puzzling about-face and explores the growth of the tourist industry into the 1990s. He argues that the transformations in image and reality were not accidental or due simply to nature's bounty. They were the result of a conscious decision to develop this aspect of Jamaica's economy.Jamaican tourism emerged formally at an international exhibition held on the island in 1891. The international tourist industry, based on the need to take a break from stressful labor and recuperate in healthful and luxurious surroundings, was a newly awakened economic giant. A group of Jamaican entrepreneurs saw its potential and began to cultivate a tourism psychology which has led, more than one hundred years later, to an economy dependent upon the tourist industry.The steamships that carried North American tourists to Jamaican resorts also carried U.S. prejudices against people of color. "To Hell with Paradise" illustrates the problems of founding a tourist industry for a European or U.S. clientele in a society where the mass of the population is poor, black, and with a historical experience of slavery and colonialism. By the 1990s, tourism had become the lifeblood of the Jamaican economy, but at an enormous cost: enclaves of privilege and ostentation that exclude the bulk of the local population, drug trafficking and prostitution, soaring prices, and environmental degradation. No wonder some Jamaicans regard tourism as a new kind of sugar.Taylor explores timely issues that have not been previously addressed. Along the way, he offers a series of valuable micro histories of the Jamaican planter class, the origins of agricultural dependency (on bananas), the growth of shipping and communications links, the process of race relations, and the linking of infrastructural development to tourism. The text is illustrated with period photographs of steamships and Jamaican tourist hotels.