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Product Description: The 19th century was, to a large extent, the ‘British century’. Great Britain was the great world power and its institutions, beliefs and values had an immense impact on the world far beyond its formal empire.  Providence and Empire argues that knowledge of the religious thought of the time is crucial in understanding the British imperial story...read more

Product Description: In the United States there is a growing interest in urban decay, very often a sociological interest, and also in what can be seen as the romanticism of abandoned structures in more rural areas. In Britain the situation is rather different...read more

Product Description: In the early 1970s, a new competitor for the UK-based bus and coach manufacturing industry emerged in the guise of Volvo, which opened a factory at Irvine, on the Ayrshire coast, to supply chasses for the UK and export market. The company's primary foray into the double-deck market was the B55 Ailsa...read more

Product Description: Turf and amenity grasslands in their multifarious form, including sport pitches, playing fields, golf courses, lawns, motorway embankments, roadside verges, urban parks, and open spaces, have a significant impact on our everyday lives...read more

Offers more than fifty stories by twentieth-century writers from the varied cultures in and around the Caribbean, including Jean Rhys, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paule Marshall, and others (view table of contents)

Product Description: The late Martin Carter was without doubt one of the Caribbean’s major poets, only less well known than Walcott and Brathwaite because he rarely left his native Guyana. His work has been a major influence as articles included in this critical anthology by Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, David Dabydeen and many more testify...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The second edition of Brown's lively and well-received anthology offers an unparalleled selection of poetry from the region. It has been expanded to reflect new directions and developments in West Indian poetry.

Product Description: West Indians, as Ian McDonald comments, "write poetry as well as they play cricket" and Heinemann's anthology is the most comprehensive and up-to-date selection of contemporary Caribbean poetry, including major names like Derek Walcott, John Agard, and Merle Collins, alongside new poets of the region...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Kamau Brathwaite is arguably the most original poet yet to emerge from the Caribbean; in terms of his technical experimentation with form and language and the sheer scale and ambition of his work he is certainly the most adventurous...read more

Product Description: This anthology provides readers with a sampler of the energy, commitment, and sheer brilliance of a whole new generation of Caribbean writers. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Brown, Stewart

A collection of poems, songs, elegies, laments, calypsos, and other forms expressing the wide range and different styles of the oral tradition in West Indian poetry