N.W. Manley and the Making of Modern Jamaica
Author: Arnold Bertram
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9789769583597
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A Concise History of Jamaica
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 1108472257
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Firstborn
Author: Fred W. Kennedy
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2022-11-16
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1039142923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Firstborn, which celebrates the legacy of Luis Fred Kennedy, his family and business, is a narrative that takes on a character of its own, larger than life. At the age of twenty one, after the sudden death of his father in 1930, Luis Fred became co-manager of Grace, Kennedy & Co. Ltd., a Jamaican enterprise founded by his father and Dr. John J. Grace in 1922. Serving as Governing Director (1947-1973), Luis Fred Kennedy laid the foundation for the company to become what it is today—a global consumer group, one of the largest and most innovative corporate entities in the Caribbean. The author portrays his father Luis Fred Kennedy to be a passionate nationalist, humanist, and advocate of private enterprise, one who had a positive and lasting impact on the political and economic history of Jamaica. Fred Kennedy interweaves the threads of family, business, and nation by combining historical research with his own personal stories, enhanced by interviews, illustrations, and photographs. Firstborn will interest those with ties to Jamaica or, more universally, anyone eager to learn the secrets of corporate leadership and of the characteristics of centenarian companies like GraceKennedy Ltd. that have prospered for one hundred years.
Corporate versus National Interest in US Trade Policy
Author: Richard L. Bernal
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-10-31
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 3030569500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a history of the WTO US-EU banana dispute through the lens of a major actor: the US-owned multinational firm, Chiquita Brands International. It documents and explains how Chiquita succeeded in having the Clinton administration pursue a trade policy of forcing the European Union to dismantle its preferential banana import regime for exports from the small English-speaking Caribbean (ESC) countries. The export of bananas was critically important to the social stability and economic viability of these countries and that was in the national security interest of the United States. The experience indicates that succeeding in this goal was detrimental to U.S. national security interest in the Caribbean.
Freedom's Children
Author: Colin A. Palmer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1469611694
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Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75
Author: Katherine D. McCann
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 701
ISBN-13: 1477322787
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Norman Washington Manley and the New Jamaica
Author: Norman Washington Manley
Publisher: Africana Pub.
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 530
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics
Author: A. Dirk Moses
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-16
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1108805191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial powers shaped the global human rights order that emerged after the Second World War. It was also critical to the genesis of contemporary human rights organizations and humanitarian movements. Anti-colonial forces mobilized human rights and other rights language in their campaigns for self-determination. In response, European empires harnessed the new international politics of human rights for their own ends, claiming that their rule, with its promise of 'development,' was the authentic vehicle for realizing them. Ranging from the postwar partitions and the wars of independence to Indigenous rights activism and post-colonial memory, this volume offers new insights into the history and legacies of human rights, self-determination, and empire to the present day.
N. W. Manley and the Making of Modern Jamaica
Author: Arnold Bertram
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9789769583573
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Author: Colin A. Palmer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-02-03
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1469611708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica's disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial society to recognize their grievances. The rebellion produced two rival leaders who dominated the political life of the colony through the achievement of independence in 1962. Alexander Bustamante, a moneylender, founded the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union and its progeny, the Jamaica Labour Party. Norman Manley, an eminent barrister, led the struggle for self-government and with others established the People's National Party. Palmer describes the ugly underside of British colonialism and details the persecution of Jamaican nationalists. He sheds new light on the nature of Bustamante's collaboration with the imperial regime, the rise of the trade-union movement, the struggle for constitutional change, and the emergence of party politics in a modernizing Jamaica.
