Graduate students are encouraged to make use of the resources of the Social History Project (SHP). These resources include computers, indexes and finding aids. The SHP was established in 1979 to encourage the study of West Indian social history in the period since the abolition of slavery. Below is a list of SHP publications. 

Jemmott, Jenny, Aleric Josephs, Kathleen E.A. Monteith, eds.

- The Caribbean, the Atlantic World, and Global Transformation: Lectures in Advanced Caribbean Proficiency Examinations in History (2010)

Cresser, Julian

- A History of Cricket in Jamaica: 1870 to the Present (2007)

Bryan, Patrick E. and Karl Watson, eds.

- Not for Wages Alone: Eyewitness Summaries of the 1938 Labour Rebellion in Jamaica (2003)

Dalby, Jonathan

- Crime and Punishment in Jamaica: A Quantitative Analysis of the Assize Court Records, 1756-1856 (2000)

Moore, Brian L. and Michele A. Johnson, eds.

- The Land We Live In: Jamaica in 1890 (2000)

Moore, Brian L. and Michele A. Johnson, eds.

- “Squalid Kingston” 1890-1920: How the Poor Lived, Moved and Had Their Being (2000)

Shepherd, Verene A.

- Women in Caribbean History: The British-Colonised Territories - An Introductory Text for Secondary Schools (1999)

Hall, N.A.T.

- A Description of the Island of Antigua with Particular Reference to Emancipation Results (Louis Rothe, 1846) (1996)

F.-Stolberg, Claus, ed.

- Jamaica 1938: The Living Conditions of the Urban and Rural Poor - Two Social Surveys (1990)

Wilmot, Swithin, ed.

- Adjustments to Emancipation in Jamaica (1988 & 1994)

Higman, Barry W., ed.

- The Jamaican Censuses of 1844 and 1961 (1980)

ELSA GOVEIA MEMORIAL LECTURES

Each year since 1985 the Department has sponsored special lectures in honour of the late Elsa Goveia, the first Professor of West Indian History in the University of the West Indies. These lectures are regularly published and can be purchased at the Department’s office. Elsa Goveia Lectures are also delivered at the Cave Hill campus.

Trevor Burnard

- Powerless Masters: The Curious Decline of Jamaican Sugar Planters in the Foundational Period of British Abolitionism (2010)

Brian L. Moore

- The Struggle for the Cultural Soul of Jamaica since Morant Bay (2009)

David Buisseret

- The Fortifications of Jamaica (2008)

Richard J. M. Blackett

- Taking Leave: Fugitive Slaves and the Politics of Slavery in America, 1850-1860 (2007)

Nigel Bolland

- Caribbean Cultures and Identities: Intepreting Garifuna Stories (2006)

Alvin O. Thompson

- Maroon Struggles and the Ideology of Freedom (2005)

Howard B.D. Johnson

- The Politics of the Past: National Heroes in Post Colonial Jamaica (2003)

Mary N. Menezes

- RSM The Rise of the Portuguese in British Guiana: From Poverty to Affluence 1835-1965 (2002)

Rex Nettleford

- Our Debt to History (1995)

Bridget Brereton

- Gendered Testimony: Autobiographies, Diaries and Letters by Women as Sources for Caribbean History (1994)

Monica Schuler

- Liberated Africans in Nineteenth Century Guyana (1991)

Woodville K. Marshall

- The Post-Slavery Labour Problem Revisted (1990)