Author: Michael Garfield Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520027794
Category : West Indies, British
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Plural Society in the British West Indies
Author: Michael Garfield Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520027794
Category : West Indies, British
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520027794
Category : West Indies, British
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Growth of the Modern West Indies
Author: Gordon K. Lewis
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN: 9766371717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
Provides an in-depth analysis of the forces that contributed to the shaping of the West Indian society covering the the crucial inter-war years from the 1920s to the period of the 1960s.
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN: 9766371717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
Provides an in-depth analysis of the forces that contributed to the shaping of the West Indian society covering the the crucial inter-war years from the 1920s to the period of the 1960s.
Persuasions and Prejudices
Author: Irving Louis Horowitz
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412830737
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
With the presumption that review essays, and statements written for special occasions may reveal as much about the writer as those written about, Irving Louis Horowitz has collected thirty-five years of his criticism and commentary. Included are comments on the famous, near famous, and infamous sociologists, political scientists, and assorted literary figures in between. Taken as a whole, this volume will surprise and delight readers who are acquainted with Horowitz's other works as well as those who are interested in the people he writes about. Written with characteristic verve and nerve, these statements sometimes combine two or more reviews into one statement, often of substantial length. Altogether the collection gives a picture of twentieth-century social science as an ongoing dialogue within itself about the nature of social reality, as well as the nature of the disciplines seeking to define that reality. The results are sometimes serious, other times amusing, but uniformly compelling. The book covers Arendt to Zetterberg, and such major figures in between as Becker, Bell, de Jouvenel, Mills, Parsons, Solzhenitsyn, and more than eighty other leading lights who have had an effect on the contemporary social landscape. All are critically examined, sometimes positively, other times negatively. Long recognized as a major figure in his own right, Horowitz writes with the kind of refreshing frankness experts will appreciate and the general reader will understand. The underlying assumption behind the volume, giving its disparate parts a unified characteristic, is that together these observations on others amount to a general theory of social science held by the author. Whether his larger ambition is accepted or disputed, there is no doubt that the volume provides a standard against which to measure the literary quality of reviewing in the world of professional social research.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412830737
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
With the presumption that review essays, and statements written for special occasions may reveal as much about the writer as those written about, Irving Louis Horowitz has collected thirty-five years of his criticism and commentary. Included are comments on the famous, near famous, and infamous sociologists, political scientists, and assorted literary figures in between. Taken as a whole, this volume will surprise and delight readers who are acquainted with Horowitz's other works as well as those who are interested in the people he writes about. Written with characteristic verve and nerve, these statements sometimes combine two or more reviews into one statement, often of substantial length. Altogether the collection gives a picture of twentieth-century social science as an ongoing dialogue within itself about the nature of social reality, as well as the nature of the disciplines seeking to define that reality. The results are sometimes serious, other times amusing, but uniformly compelling. The book covers Arendt to Zetterberg, and such major figures in between as Becker, Bell, de Jouvenel, Mills, Parsons, Solzhenitsyn, and more than eighty other leading lights who have had an effect on the contemporary social landscape. All are critically examined, sometimes positively, other times negatively. Long recognized as a major figure in his own right, Horowitz writes with the kind of refreshing frankness experts will appreciate and the general reader will understand. The underlying assumption behind the volume, giving its disparate parts a unified characteristic, is that together these observations on others amount to a general theory of social science held by the author. Whether his larger ambition is accepted or disputed, there is no doubt that the volume provides a standard against which to measure the literary quality of reviewing in the world of professional social research.
Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism
Author: Brian L. Moore
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773513549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Focusing on the critical years after the abolition of slavery in Guyana (1838-1900), Brian Moore examines the dynamic interplay between diverse cultures and the impact of these complex relationships on the development and structure of a colonial multiracial society.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773513549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Focusing on the critical years after the abolition of slavery in Guyana (1838-1900), Brian Moore examines the dynamic interplay between diverse cultures and the impact of these complex relationships on the development and structure of a colonial multiracial society.
Society, Schools and Progress in the West Indies
Author: John J. Figueroa
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483139662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Society, Schools and Progress in the West Indies
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483139662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Society, Schools and Progress in the West Indies
Believing Identity
Author: Nicole Toulis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100032382X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion -- in this case Pentecostalism -- cannot be understood simply as a means of spiritual compensation for the economically disadvantaged. Rather, in the New Testament Church of God, one of Britain's largest African Caribbean churches, the cosmology of the church resolves the questions surrounding identity as well as suffering. Religious participation is one way in which African Caribbean people negotiate the terms of representation and interaction in British society.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100032382X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion -- in this case Pentecostalism -- cannot be understood simply as a means of spiritual compensation for the economically disadvantaged. Rather, in the New Testament Church of God, one of Britain's largest African Caribbean churches, the cosmology of the church resolves the questions surrounding identity as well as suffering. Religious participation is one way in which African Caribbean people negotiate the terms of representation and interaction in British society.
British West Indian Newspapers and the Abolition of Slavery
Author: Andrew Lewis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040041051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century—a critical period in the history of the region. Based on extensive and ground-breaking archival research, this volume provides an in-depth history of early nineteenth-century British West Indian newspapers and potted biographies of the journalists who produced them. The author examines the economics underpinning newspapers, and a political spectrum, unique to the West Indian press, is also posited. Towards one end sat a small group of ‘liberal’ newspapers that outraged white colonists by arguing for civil and political rights to be extended to so-called free coloureds and for the abolition of slavery; scattered at various points towards the other end of the spectrum were newspapers still best collectively described as the ‘planter press’—the traditional term used in the literature. Starting from this basic conceptual framework, the volume shows how the press landscape in the British Caribbean at this time was more volatile and complex than has been previously thought. This volume will be of value to academics, undergraduates and postgraduates studying Caribbean and media history and those interested in modern history.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040041051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century—a critical period in the history of the region. Based on extensive and ground-breaking archival research, this volume provides an in-depth history of early nineteenth-century British West Indian newspapers and potted biographies of the journalists who produced them. The author examines the economics underpinning newspapers, and a political spectrum, unique to the West Indian press, is also posited. Towards one end sat a small group of ‘liberal’ newspapers that outraged white colonists by arguing for civil and political rights to be extended to so-called free coloureds and for the abolition of slavery; scattered at various points towards the other end of the spectrum were newspapers still best collectively described as the ‘planter press’—the traditional term used in the literature. Starting from this basic conceptual framework, the volume shows how the press landscape in the British Caribbean at this time was more volatile and complex than has been previously thought. This volume will be of value to academics, undergraduates and postgraduates studying Caribbean and media history and those interested in modern history.
A Man Divided
Author: Douglas Hall
Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica : Press University of the West Indies
ISBN: 9789766400347
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Michael Garfield Smith was an internationally distinguished anthropologist. He was also a poet of merit, but few people knew that or really understood the conflicts, personal and professional, that made him, in the opinion of many who knew him, appear arrogant and unapproachable. This account tries to show the whole man, and it is to date the only biography of M. G. Smith. A Man Divided is a brief account of M. G. Smith the man, "the talented, hardworking Jamaican and how he made his way, rather than of the academic performance of Professor M. G. Smith the internationally distinguished anthropologist". Preface
Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica : Press University of the West Indies
ISBN: 9789766400347
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Michael Garfield Smith was an internationally distinguished anthropologist. He was also a poet of merit, but few people knew that or really understood the conflicts, personal and professional, that made him, in the opinion of many who knew him, appear arrogant and unapproachable. This account tries to show the whole man, and it is to date the only biography of M. G. Smith. A Man Divided is a brief account of M. G. Smith the man, "the talented, hardworking Jamaican and how he made his way, rather than of the academic performance of Professor M. G. Smith the internationally distinguished anthropologist". Preface
Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838
Author: Barbara Bush
Publisher: James Currey
ISBN: 9780852550588
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In this text the author sets forth and then evaulates the images of slave women accumulated in published sources and folklore.
Publisher: James Currey
ISBN: 9780852550588
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In this text the author sets forth and then evaulates the images of slave women accumulated in published sources and folklore.
Growth of Modern West Indies
Author: Gordon K. Lewis
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0853451303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Provides an in-depth analysis of the forces that contributed to the shaping of the West Indian society covering the the crucial inter-war years from the 1920s to the period of the 1960s.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0853451303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Provides an in-depth analysis of the forces that contributed to the shaping of the West Indian society covering the the crucial inter-war years from the 1920s to the period of the 1960s.