The University Of The West Indies Press: 11 books

This volume is the product of interest in both Howell and the genesis of the Rastafari movement. The volume was conceived and compiled by Rastafari scholars that hail from a range of disciplines at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica, thus assuring a cross-disciplinary feel for this important contribution to Rastafari scholarship.

The book consists of papers that were presented at All Souls College, Oxford on the occasion of the centenary of Eric William's birth. They draw upon recent research and either supported, modified or rejected Williams's conclusions in Capitalism and Slavery.

This is the first book on the issue of school-based assessment (SBA) in a public examination. The book explores the historical, conceptual, theoretical and practical dimensions of SBA in a public examination by considering related literature and the writer's own experience as an educational practitioner,...

V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott constitute the crest of the wave of West Indian literary achievement that began to build in the 1950s and 1960s. The author's essays trace and celebrate the unique relationships the three writers forged with each other and with their Caribbean readers over the course of their careers.

Hiroona is unique for its style: the entire 9,410 lines are rhyming couplets mostly in tetrameter. The book's greatest strength is that it would be the first printing since the original in 1930.

This book presents a unique collection of perspectives drawn from academics from the Caribbean, UK and US, as well as the reflections of two prominent persons, Richard Hart, Grenada's attorney general during the Revolution and Sir Shridath Ramphal, Commonwealth Secretary General at the time.

The book provides both a comprehensive and a perceptive examination of Caribbean regional integration since the 1950s, combining an historical account with economic and policy analysis to illustrate the changing and multifaceted nature of the region's integration process.

The book comprises five chapters, which draw on contemporary theoretical paradigms from diaspora studies, cultural studies, feminism, gender studies and post-colonialism. The aim is to provide a critical text that can be utilized in acacemic programmes designed for the critical production by Afro-Mexican writers and oral performers.

This collection is intended to address a range of issues around globalization, sovereignty and citizenship, represents a timely intervention to meet important academic and intellectual needs, while also filling an important gap in the academic literature.

This book is a study of the hitherto largely ignored, global origins and connections of José Martí's (1853-1895) Cuban independence leader, efforts towards decolonization and the forging of a new nation in Cuba.

The book is a collection of new and unpublished ghost stories written by some of the most celebrated contemporary writers of the Caribbean. It is the first collection of its kind, and drawing on the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone islands, the volume will be a landmark publication in Caribbean writing.