Colin Palmer: 9 books
by Sean Mcgrail, Lucy Blue, Eric Kentley
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
This book sets new standards for the documentation of water transport, and introduces styles of boat-building which are unlikely to be found outside the sub-Continent. A fascinating and accessible read for anyone interested in boats or the South Asian way of life, as well as ethnographers, maritime...
Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Freedom's Children, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power, and Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This Omnibus E-Book brings together all three of Colin A. Palmer's books on the making of the modern Caribbean. Included are:
Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
This is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion...
Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power
British Guiana's Struggle for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, here tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. At the center of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony's first premier following the institution of universal...
by Colin A. Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (1911-81) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nation's first prime minister. Before entering politics, he was a professor at Howard University...
Freedom's Children
The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
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...
The First Passage
Blacks in the Americas 1502-1617
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 1995
The history of African Americans begins in Africa, a continent that was home to people with different languages, traditions, histories, and religions. They called themselves Twi, Yoruba, Zulu, Ashanti, and Kumba, among other names. In the early sixteenth century Europeans turned to Africa for the...
Thinking in the Dark
Cinema, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating,...
Water
A Comprehensive Guide for Brewers
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Water is arguably the most critical and least understood of the foundation elements in brewing beer. Water: A Comprehensive Guide for Brewers, third in Brewers Publications’ Brewing Elements series, takes the mystery out of water’s role in the brewing process. The book leads brewers through the...
Gli ingredienti della birra: l'acqua
Guida completa per il birraio
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Il quarto e ultimo volume della nuova serie “Gli ingredienti della birra”, dedicata sia agli homebrewer sia ai produttori di birra artigianale. L’acqua è probabilmente l’ingrediente più critico e meno compreso della birra. Questo libro ne svela il misterioso ruolo all’interno del processo...