Freedom's Children : The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica /
This is a comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. The author 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 society t...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Jamaica in 1938
- The labor rebellion
- Race and the colonial imagination
- Looking back, moving forward
- Bustamante, unionism, and the politics of performance
- Bustamante and the politics of power
- Challenging power and facing the consequences
- Constitutional change
- Party politics.