Mayer Matalon : business, politics and the Jewish-Jamaican elite / Diana Thorburn.

By:

Thorburn, Diana [author.]

Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2019Description: xv, 137 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780761871149

Other title:

Business, politics and the Jewish-Jamaican elite

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Biographies.

DDC classification:

B Ja Mat

Contents:

Introduction -- Landmarks -- Beginnings -- Early years in business -- The Numbers Man -- The growth of ICD -- Housing -- On the inside of political decision making, 1950-2010 -- Jamaica's Chairman of the Board: Bank of Nova Scotia and cable and wireless -- The end of an era -- The world of Mayer Matalon -- Postscript

Summary: "This biography of Mayer Matalon traces his path from humble origins to innovator, public servant, political insider, and leader of his family's conglomerate. It is a story of race, class, and power in postcolonial Jamaica and of the island's political and economic trajectory over the sixty years before and after independence"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Jamaican	Rare Books Floor	B Ja Mat (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000165449
Books	National Library of Jamaica		Rare Books Floor	B Ja Mat (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000112553
Books	National Library of Jamaica		Rare Books Floor	B Ja Mat (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000070150
Books	National Library of Jamaica		Rare Books Floor	B Ja Mat (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000120282
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127) and index.

"Further reading" (pages 121-122).

"This biography of Mayer Matalon traces his path from humble origins to innovator, public servant, political insider, and leader of his family's conglomerate. It is a story of race, class, and power in postcolonial Jamaica and of the island's political and economic trajectory over the sixty years before and after independence"-- Provided by publisher.

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