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Jamaica's 50th anniversary scrapbook : the birth of a nation / forward by Dr. Donna Hope ; [edited by Ingrid Abrahams]

Title
Jamaica's 50th anniversary scrapbook : the birth of a nation / forward by Dr. Donna Hope ; [edited by Ingrid Abrahams]
Publication
  • [Jamaica] : Pageturner Publishing House, [2012]
  • ©2012

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Additional Authors
  • Hope, Donna P.
  • Abrahams, Ingrid
Description
60 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 26 cm
Summary
Celebrates 50 years of Jamaican independence by briefly covering the history from Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus's first visit to unsettled Jamaica in 1494 to the present.
Subject
  • Politics and government
  • Decolonization > Jamaica
  • Decolonization
  • Jamaica > Politics and government
  • Jamaica > History
  • Jamaica
Genre/Form
History
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  • Cover title.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Source of Description (note)
  • This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license. The University of Florida Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.
Contents
The birth of a nation -- National heroes and their exploits -- Out of many one people -- Down with the Union Jack, up with the Black, Gold and Green -- Sir Alexander Bustamante's 1962 Independence Address -- Hon. Norman Manley's 1962 Parliamentary Address -- A period of nation building -- From pounds and pence to dollars and cents -- Prime Ministers, 1962-present -- Snapshots.
OCLC
868900492
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library