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213 p, Contents: The effect of monopoly power and the establishment of imperial preference -- The Second World War and its aftermath: political control and corporate adjustment -- Competition and accommodation: the development of the windward islands and export trade and the problems of Caribbean rivalry -- The EEC an the Lomé convention: a weakening of the national approach -- The creation of a single European market in bananas and the exploiting of networks of influence -- The ultimate challenge: the WTO and the marginalization of Caribbean interests
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264 p, Contents: Charisma and populism : theoretical reflections on leadership and legitimacy / Anton L. Allahar -- Errol Barrow (1920-78) / Hilbourne A. Watson -- The limits of charisma : Grenada's Eric Gairy (1922-97) and Maurice Bishop (1944-83) / Pedro A. Noguera -- Linden Forbes Burnham (1923-85) / Linden Lewis -- Cheddi Jagan (1918-97) / Percy C. Hintzen -- A very public private man : Trinidad's Eric Eustace Williams (1911-83) / Patricia Mohammed -- Jamaica's Michael Manley (1924-97) / Brian Meeks -- Cuba's Fidel Castro / Nelson P. Valdés
Zimmermann,Robert (Author), Lawes,Carol (Author), and Svenson,Nanette (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
Feb 2012
Published:
United Nations Development Programme
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246 p., Crime has become one of the main challenges threatening economies and livelihoods in Caribbean countries, but the right mix of policies and programmes can halt the problem, according to this report. It reviews the current state of crime as well as national and regional policies and programmes to address the problem in seven English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
DeLoughrey,Elizabeth M. (Author), Gosson,Renee K. (Author), and Handley,George B. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press
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303 p, Contents: Sugar and the environment in Cuba / Antonio Benítez-Rojo -- Isla incognita / Derek Walcott -- Shaping the environment : sugar plantation, or life after identured labor / Cyril Dabydeen -- Coffee and colonialism in Julia Alvarez's A cafecito story / Trenton Hickman -- Subjection and resistance in the transformation of Guyana's mytho-colonial landscape / Shona N. Jackson -- A long bilingual conversation concerning paradise lost : landscapes in Haitian art / LeGrace Benson -- "Caribbean genesis" : language, gardens, worlds (Jamaica Kincaid, Derek Walcott, Édouard Glissant) / Jana Evans Braziel -- "The argument of the outboard motor" : an interview with Derek Walcott / George B. Handley -- Cultural and environmental assimilation in Martinique : an interview with Raphaël Confiant / Renée K. Gosson -- Moving the Caribbean landscape : Cereus blooms at night as a re-imagination of the Caribbean environment / Isabel Hoving -- "Rosebud is my mama, stanfaste is my papa" : hybrid landscapes and sexualities in Surinamese oral literature / Natasha Tinsley -- "He of the trees" : nature, environment, and Creole religiosities in Caribbean literature / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- "Man fitting the landscape" : nature, culture, and colonialism / Helen Tiffin -- Flashbacks of an orchid : rhizomatic narration in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes / Heidi Bojsen -- Landscapes, narratives, and tropical nature : Creole modernity in Suriname / Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger -- The uses of landscape : ecocriticism and Martinican cultural theory / Eric Prieto -- From living nature to borderless culture in Wilson Harris's work / Hena Maes-Jelinek -- Epilogue : Theatre of the arts / Wilson Harris
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228 p, Contents: Canonized hybridities, resistant hybridities: Chutney Soca, carnival, and the politics of nationalism / Shalini Puri -- Soca and social formations: avoiding the romance of culture in Trinidad / Stefano Harney -- Trinidad romance: the invention of Jamaican carnival / Belinda J. Edmondson -- All that is black melts into air: negritud and nation in Puerto Rico / Catherine Den Tandt -- Positive vibration? Capitalist textual hegemony and Bob Marley / Mike Alleyne --"Titid ad pèp la se marasa": Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the new national romance in Haiti / Kevin Meehan -- Shadowboxing in the Mangrove: the politics of identity in postcolonial Martinique / Richard Price and Sally Price -- Beautiful Indians, troublesome negroes, and nice white men: Caribbean romances and the invention of Trinidad / Faith Smith -- Homing instincts: immigrant nostalgia and gender politics in Brown girl, brownstones / Supriya Nair -- Derek Walcott: liminal spaces/substantive histories / Tejumola Olaniyan
[Austin]: SALALM Secretariat Benson Latin American Collection The General Libraries University of Texas at Austin
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1 microfiche, The focus on this paper is official plublishing of the English-speaking Caribbean beings. I us the term official publishing and goverment publishing interchangeably; Includes bibliographical references
