Uwi Press: 71 books

This work discusses the failure of policies employed by the government from 1958 to 2008 to foster the growth and development of the economy.

Following the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the failure of the Jamaican planters to implement labour reforms; production, productivity and the health of the enslaved Africans continued to decline.

Britain's Black Debt is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean. It looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process.

Rihanna: Barbados World Gurl in Global Popular Culture brings together US- and Caribbean-based scholars to discuss issues of class, gender, sexuality, race, culture and economy. Drawing from literature, history, musicology, sociology, cultural studies, feminist, gender, and queer studies, the creative/cultural...

The author gives the reader an insider's view of power, violence and sexuality in Jamaica as seen through the prism of the dancehall.

This book offers some of the most significant unpublished work from pioneering scholars of Rastafari as they examine the history, development and future of Rastafari scholarship. It is an exciting and wide-ranging text that provides insights on the last fifty years of investigations into Rastafari.

The book provides a detailed analysis of two Winkler novels (The Lunatic and The Duppy) and an autobiographical work (Going Home to Teach).

This book speaks to the remarkable global reach and influence of Caribbean musics and investigates Caribbean women, music and identity.

This book highlights the diary of Thomas Thistlewood and contains a rich chronicle of platation life in Jamaica during the 18th century.

This book provides an exemplary model of the cliometric method, and might very well be the best single study ever done on any slave system anywhere.

Collection of essays including Joyce Adler's previously unpublished essay on Harris's cross-cultural dialogue with Melville, and a substantial autobiographical essay by Wilson Harris.

This edited collection responds to the on-going archaeological imperative of unearthing and reassembling fragments of voice and identity. It adds to the multigenerational project of naming and fashioning the diverse island cultures of the Caribbean and offers yet another shared honour, duty and love.

This book has been divided into two sections, each of which contains articles whose focus is predominantly on one aspect of Dabydeen's writing - his poetry or his novels.

This book deals with the Caribbean phase of Walcott's poetry.