Saturday, February 6, 2010

Jamaican Leaders: Political Attitudes in a New Nation

Bell, Wendell, Jamaican Leaders: Political Attitudes in a New Nation , University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles (1964).

From the author's preface:
This book constitutes a case study in the sociology of nationhood. It is about ... Jamaica ..., during the final stages of its transition from colonial dependence to full political independence, and it focuses on the exploration and discovery of the causes of nationalism, those factors that produce nationalist attitudes, that underlie a person's desire and drive for political independence, and those that in others result conversely in preferences for colonial status and opposition to the formation of the new independent nation-state.


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