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N.W. Manley and the making of modern Jamaica / Arnold Bertram. PRINT

By: Kingston : Arawak Publications, 2016Description: xix, 451 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789769583573
  • 976958357X
  • 9789769583597
  • 9769583596
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • B Ja Ber 23
LOC classification:
  • F1886.M36 B37 2016
Contents:
Roots -- the origins, growth and decline of a coloured and black political class -- Norman Manley : the early years -- From rebel to Rhodes Scholar -- The rise and demise of the first nationalist organizations -- For king and empire -- Edna -- The ordeal of a coloured colonial in an imperial war -- Oxford, marriage and the Bar -- The national and colonial question in the Post-War world -- My destiny awaits my return to Jamaica -- The rise to leadership of the Jamaican Bar -- Black nationalism / Ethiopianism stirs national and racial consciousness -- Drumblair -- Trade unionists, nationalists and Marxists shape the emerging national movement -- "We're out to build a new Jamaica" -- Nineteen thirty-eight -- The birth of the People's National Party -- Leading the struggle for a new constitution -- The 1944 General Election -- Fighting for survival -- The PNP/TUC offensive -- The 1949 General Election -- Leading the Opposition -- The crisis in the Party and the impact of the Cold War -- The 1955 General Election -- The making of modern Jamaica -- The 1959 General Election -- Tensions and challenges -- The Federal debate -- Negotiating Jamaica's independence -- The 1962 General Election -- Independence -- Renewing the PNP in independent Jamaica -- Once more to the beach -- The last years.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-428) and index.

Roots -- the origins, growth and decline of a coloured and black political class -- Norman Manley : the early years -- From rebel to Rhodes Scholar -- The rise and demise of the first nationalist organizations -- For king and empire -- Edna -- The ordeal of a coloured colonial in an imperial war -- Oxford, marriage and the Bar -- The national and colonial question in the Post-War world -- My destiny awaits my return to Jamaica -- The rise to leadership of the Jamaican Bar -- Black nationalism / Ethiopianism stirs national and racial consciousness -- Drumblair -- Trade unionists, nationalists and Marxists shape the emerging national movement -- "We're out to build a new Jamaica" -- Nineteen thirty-eight -- The birth of the People's National Party -- Leading the struggle for a new constitution -- The 1944 General Election -- Fighting for survival -- The PNP/TUC offensive -- The 1949 General Election -- Leading the Opposition -- The crisis in the Party and the impact of the Cold War -- The 1955 General Election -- The making of modern Jamaica -- The 1959 General Election -- Tensions and challenges -- The Federal debate -- Negotiating Jamaica's independence -- The 1962 General Election -- Independence -- Renewing the PNP in independent Jamaica -- Once more to the beach -- The last years.

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