African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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2 vols, "The book is organized around the war, carried on by the government in Jamaica, against the body of black people called Maroons, long established in the interior of that island." (Google)
Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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168 p., Provides an accessible account of a poorly understood aspect of Jamaican popular culture. It explores the socio-political meanings of Jamaica's dancehall culture. In particular, the book gives an account of the power relations within the dancehall and between the dancehall and the wider Jamaican society.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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363 p., Jamaica is one of a chain of islands -- the West Indian archipelago -- which encircles the Caribbean Sea. Its earliest indigenous people, the Tainos, succumbed to the arrival of western Europeans, inaugurated by the encounter with Columbus in 1494.
