The Confounding Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Confounding Island write by Orlando Patterson. This book was released on 2019-11-12. The Confounding Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The preeminent sociologist and National Book Award–winning author of Freedom in the Making of Western Culture grapples with the paradox of his homeland: its remarkable achievements amid continuing struggles since independence. There are few places more puzzling than Jamaica. Jamaicans claim their home has more churches per square mile than any other country, yet it is one of the most murderous nations in the world. Its reggae superstars and celebrity sprinters outshine musicians and athletes in countries hundreds of times its size. Jamaica’s economy is anemic and too many of its people impoverished, yet they are, according to international surveys, some of the happiest on earth. In The Confounding Island, Orlando Patterson returns to the place of his birth to reckon with its history and culture. Patterson investigates the failures of Jamaica’s postcolonial democracy, exploring why the country has been unable to achieve broad economic growth and why its free elections and stable government have been unable to address violence and poverty. He takes us inside the island’s passion for cricket and the unparalleled international success of its local musical traditions. He offers a fresh answer to a question that has bedeviled sports fans: Why are Jamaican runners so fast? Jamaica’s successes and struggles expose something fundamental about the world we live in. If we look closely at the Jamaican example, we see the central dilemmas of globalization, economic development, poverty reduction, and postcolonial politics thrown into stark relief.
The Confounding Island
The Confounding Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Confounding Island write by Orlando Patterson. This book was released on 2019. The Confounding Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Orlando Patterson returns to Jamaica, his birthplace, to reckon with its history and culture. Locals claim to be some of the world's happiest people, and their successes in music and athletics are legendary. Yet the country remains violent and poor. In Jamaica the dilemmas of globalization and postcolonial politics are thrown into stark relief.
Cuba, Hot and Cold
Cuba, Hot and Cold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cuba, Hot and Cold write by Tom Miller. This book was released on 2017-10-10. Cuba, Hot and Cold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A collection of renowned travel writer Tom Miller's best musings on the history and culture of Cuba"--Provided by publisher.
Surviving Paradise
Surviving Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surviving Paradise write by Peter Rudiak-Gould. This book was released on 2009. Surviving Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just one month after his 21st birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2,000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching English to its schoolchildren. At first blush, Surviving Paradise is a thoughtful and laugh-out-loud hilarious documentation of Rudiak-Gould’s efforts to cope with daily life on Ujae as his idealistic expectations of a tropical paradise confront harsh reality. But Rudiak-Gould goes beyond the personal, interweaving his own story with fascinating political, linguistic, and ecological digressions about the Marshall Islands. Most poignant are his observations of the noticeable effect of global warming on these tiny, low-lying islands and the threat rising water levels pose to their already precarious existence. An Eat, Pray, Love as written by Paul Theroux, Surviving Paradise is a disarmingly lighthearted narrative with a substantive emotional undercurrent.
The Children of Sisyphus
The Children of Sisyphus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Children of Sisyphus write by Orlando Patterson. This book was released on 1985. The Children of Sisyphus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
