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出版Clio Press, 1997
主題History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / Caribbean & West Indies / GeneralReference / Bibliographies & Indexes
ISBN18510926769781851092673
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dKYUAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Jamaica is one of a chain of islands -- the West Indian archipelago -- which encircles the Caribbean Sea. Its earliest indigenous people, the Tainos, succumbed to the arrival of western Europeans, inaugurated by the encounter with Columbus in 1494. Spanish rule gave way in 1655 to some 300 years of English colonial rule involving nearly two centuries of plantation slavery. The country finally gained independence in 1962. Jamaica has made some notable contributions in the international arena. Perhaps best known are its contributions in the world of sport, popular music (reggae) and in its development of distinctive forms of dance-theatre and folk music. This wide-ranging volume is a fully revised and updated edition of the work which was first published in 1984.