The Confounding Island : : Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament / / Orlando Patterson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Patterson, Orlando,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; I. Explaining Postcolonial Failure --; 1. Why Has Jamaica Trailed Barbados on the Path to Sustained Growth? --; 2. Why Is Democratic Jamaica So Violent? --; 3. Were Female Workers Preferred in Jamaica’s Early Economic Development? --; II. Three Cultural Puzzles --; 4. Why Are Jamaicans the Fastest Runners in the World? --; 5. Why Did Jamaicans Riot at a Cricket Match against England? --; 6. Why Does Globalization Not Produce Cultural Homogenization? --; III. The Failures of Policy and Politicians --; 7. Why Do Policies to Help the Poor So Often Fail? --; 8. Sad about Manley --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674243064; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674243064
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Orlando Patterson.

Orlando Patterson returns to Jamaica, his birthplace, to reckon with its history and culture. Locals claim to be some of the world’s happiest people, and their successes in music and athletics are legendary. Yet the country remains violent and poor. In Jamaica the dilemmas of globalization and postcolonial politics are thrown into stark relief.