A multidisciplinary study that reconstructs Jamaica's rise from low to high life expectancy and explains how that was achieved. Jamaica is one of the small numb

This book examines the social and economic forces that have shaped and constrained the development of education in the British Leeward Islands following emancip

For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of t

This handbook offers a global perspective on the historical development of educational institutions, systems of schooling, educational ideas, and educational ex

A short account of the history of medicine leads on to Jamaican medical care in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the twentieth century the demand for