The mall was air conditioned, had a two screen cineplex, and was one of the few places in Kingston you could go and imagine yourself back in the States—if you didn't look too closely. Few of even the most upscale Jamaican stores have ...
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Language: en
Pages: 372
Pages: 372
Two Years In Kingston Town is the story of a married couple--Jeff, a psychologist, and Maria, a psychiatric nurse--that decide to pull up stakes and go off for a two-year sojourn as Peace Corps Volunteers in Jamaica. It tells of their struggles to adapt, what they did in their assignments
Language: en
Pages: 421
Pages: 421
This book is a collection of essays on Kingston during the nineteenth century, following the end of the War of 1812. It seeks to explain and illustrate some of the most significant aspects of life in the city during the years when Kingston's special character was formed and became deeply
Language: en
Pages: 160
Pages: 160
Books about The Wyoming Valley in 1892
Language: en
Pages: 296
Pages: 296
This innovative book traces the history of ideas and policymaking concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in Caribbean colonies wrestling with the aftermath of slavery. Focusing on Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados from the nineteenth century through the 1930s, when violent labor protests swept the region, Juanita De Barros
Language: en
Pages: 297
Pages: 297
Whereas the past decades have seen a profound reconsideration of eighteenth-century visual culture, the architecture of that century has undergone little evaluation. Its study, unlike that of the early modern period or the twentieth century, has continued to use essentially the same methods and ideas over the last fifty years.