The Caribbean People


Book Description

'The Caribbean People' is a three-book 'History' series for Secondary schools. Tracing the origins and developments of the Caribbean region, Book 1 starts with Early Civilisation, Tribes and Settlers, followed by Colonisation and Plantations in Book 2. Book 3 looks at modern West Indian society, more recent history and current affairs.




Nelson Caribbean Mathematics 1


Book Description

Nelson Caribbean Mathematics is a three book course suitable for students of all abilities in lower Secondary school. The series aims to provide students with a solid foundation in Mathematics needed in everyday life and provides a firm basis for study up to CXC and beyond. Real life examples are used to illustrate concepts, making learning more relevant and easy. Less able students will find the many examples reassuring and encouraging, whilst there are plenty of challenges to keep higher abilty students interested and motivated.




White Fury


Book Description

The story of the struggle over slavery in the British empire -- as told through the rich, expressive, and frequently shocking letters of one of the wealthiest British slaveholders ever to have lived.




Architecture and Empire in Jamaica


Book Description

Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the author's own photographs and drawings, Louis P. Nelson examines surviving buildings and archival records to write a social history of architecture. Nelson begins with an overview of the architecture of the West African slave trade then moves to chapters framed around types of buildings and landscapes, including the Jamaican plantation landscape and fortified houses to the architecture of free blacks. He concludes with a consideration of Jamaican architecture in Britain. By connecting the architecture of the Caribbean first to West Africa and then to Britain, Nelson traces the flow of capital and makes explicit the material, economic, and political networks around the Atlantic.




Nelson Caribbean Mathematics 2


Book Description

Nelson Caribbean Mathematics is a three book course suitable for students of all abilities in lower Secondary school. The series aims to provide students with a solid foundation in Mathematics needed in everyday life and provides a firm basis for study up to CXC and beyond. Real life examples are used to illustrate concepts, making learning more relevant and easy. Less able students will find the many examples reassuring and encouraging, whilst there are plenty of challenges to keep higher abilty students interested and motivated.




Nelson in the Caribbean


Book Description

The events of Lord Nelson's early naval career in the West Indies that both shaped and predicted his future greatness.




English Alive!


Book Description

"English Alive! is a series designed specifically to meet the needs of English students in Caribbean secondary schools. The book covers the key areas of reading comprehension, listening and speaking, writing grammar and language usage and vocabulary development. Particular attention is given to the often challenging area of poetry. The book also covers common errors made by students. A reference section contains verb tables, including a section on tenses (notoriously difficult for learners), irregular verbs and a glossary of language words and literary terms,"--page [4] of cover.




Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica


Book Description

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery. Charmaine A. Nelson explores the central role of geography and its racialized representation as landscape art in imperial conquest. One could easily assume that nineteenth-century Montreal and Jamaica were worlds apart, but through her astute examination of marine landscape art, the author re-connects these two significant British island colonies, sites of colonial ports with profound economic and military value. Through an analysis of prints, illustrated travel books, and maps, the author exposes the fallacy of their disconnection, arguing instead that the separation of these colonies was a retroactive fabrication designed in part to rid Canada of its deeply colonial history as an integral part of Britain's global trading network which enriched the motherland through extensive trade in crops produced by enslaved workers on tropical plantations. The first study to explore James Hakewill's Jamaican landscapes and William Clark's Antiguan genre studies in depth, it also examines the Montreal landscapes of artists including Thomas Davies, Robert Sproule, George Heriot and James Duncan. Breaking new ground, Nelson reveals how gender and race mediated the aesthetic and scientific access of such - mainly white, male - artists. She analyzes this moment of deep political crisis for British slave owners (between the end of the slave trade in 1807 and complete abolition in 1833) who employed visual culture to imagine spaces free of conflict and to alleviate their pervasive anxiety about slave resistance. Nelson explores how vision and cartographic knowledge translated into authority, which allowed colonizers to 'civilize' the terrains of the so-called New World, while belying the oppression of slavery and indigenous displacement.




Tastes Like Home


Book Description

Guyanese food enthusiast and blogger Cynthia Nelson, who lives in Barbados, brings readers over 100 recipes from all over the Caribbean; all of which she has tried and tested herself and served to family and friends. But more than just recipes, Tastes Like Home is a conversation about food and how it connects and forms part of Caribbean identity.




Nelson Caribbean


Book Description




Recent Books