دانلود کتاب The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament

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Cover\nTitle Page\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nIntroduction\nI. Explaining Postcolonial Failure\n 1. Why Has Jamaica Trailed Barbados on the Path to Sustained Growth?: The Role of Institutions, Colonialism, and Cultural Appropriation\n 2. Why Is Democratic Jamaica So Violent?: Revisiting the “Democratic Peace” Thesis\n 3. Were Female Workers Preferred in Jamaica’s Early Economic Development?: Employment, Urbanization, and Gender among the Postcolonial Proletariat\nII. Three Cultural Puzzles\n 4. Why Are Jamaicans the Fastest Runners in the World?: The Institutionalization of Athletic Prowess\n 5. Why Did Jamaicans Riot at a Cricket Match against England?: The Ritual of Cricket in West Indian Societies\n 6. Why Does Globalization Not Produce Cultural Homogenization?:\r The Example of Jamaican Reggae Music\nIII. The Failures of Policy and Politicians\n 7. Why Do Policies to Help the Poor So Often Fail?: A Jamaican Case Study\n 8. Sad about Manley Portrait of a Flawed Charisma\nEpilogue\nNotes\nWorks Cited\nAcknowledgments\nIndex