Abstract
The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament, by Orlando Patterson
Highlights
Via free access book reviews out the postemancipation colonial period, and that this led to a more gradual transition to self-rule, is of critical importance
Throughout the seven chapters and coda, which range from classical historical sociology to reflections on his own role in policy-making and governance, Patterson shows us that these aren’t really paradoxes at all
Patterson emerges, as readers familiar with his work would already know, as a believer in institutionalism, and the most compelling chapters of The Confounding Island are those that most directly provide evidence for this position. Most appreciated for this reader was the chapter on why independent Jamaica has trailed Barbados in terms of sustained growth
Summary
Via free access book reviews out the postemancipation colonial period, and that this led to a more gradual (and largely peaceful) transition to self-rule, is of critical importance. These are the paradoxical questions that open Orlando Patterson’s new book.
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