The Confounding Island : : Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament / / 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 postc...
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Patterson, Orlando, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Confounding Island : Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament / Orlando Patterson. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (304 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Nationalism and sports Jamaica. Postcolonialism Jamaica. Reggae music Jamaica. Urban poor Jamaica. POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110652031 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674243064 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674243064 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674243064.jpg |
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Patterson, Orlando, Patterson, Orlando, The Confounding Island : Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament / 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 |
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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 |
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