UWI Press Annual Report 2010-2011

ANNUAL REPORT

THE UNIVERSITY OF

THE WEST INDIES PRESS

2011 JAMAICA • BARBADOS • TRINIDAD & TOBAGO •

OPEN CAMPUS

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The University of the West

Indies Press’smission is to be

the premier scholarly book

publisher in the Caribbean, to

enhance and encourage

research and publication of

Caribbean scholarship, to

promote the global reputation

of the University of the West

Indies by empowering the

scholarly community it serves,

and to disseminate Caribbean

scholarship to the world within

a cost-effective environment.

M I S S I O NS T A T E M E N T

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Chair

Mr Archibald Campbell, Director of Finance and University Bursar

Professor Andrew Downes, Cave Hill Representative

Mrs Valerie Facey, Private Sector, Jamaica

Mrs Luz Longworth, Open Campus Representative

Mrs Beverly Pereira, University Counsel

Mrs Beverly Smith-Hinkson, Private Sector, Barbados

Mr Errol Simms, St Augustine Representative

UNIVERS ITY OF THE WEST INDIES PRESS STAFF

Nadine Buckland, Finance Manager

Jean Honeyghan, Publishing Assistant

Jodie McBean, Accounting Officer

Donna Muirhead, Marketing and Sales Manager

Karen Smith, Marketing and Sales Assistant

Linda Speth, General Manager

Herleth Thompson, Accounting Clerk

UWI PRESS ANNUAL REPORT 2011 3

C O N T E N T S Executive Summary / 4

Books and Journals Published / 5

Caribbean Publishing Networks / 11

Conferences, Lectures and Exhibits / 13

Book Launches, Readings and Signings / 16

Scholarly and Media Book Reviews / 17

Print and Electronic Advertising / 19

Print and Electronic Catalogues and Flyers / 25

Miscellaneous Publicity / 26

Conclusion / 29

E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y

During 2010–2011, the Press generated net revenues of J$18 million;

planned and implemented the Eighteenth Anniversary and Author

Awards Ceremony; published fifty-three peer-reviewed books, journals

and reprints; had a presence at twenty international and regional

conferences, exhibits and lectures; published a fifty-page 2010–2011

books-in-print catalogue, featuring 282 books; won six industry awards;

kept the salary bill to the University Centre current; eliminated the

outstanding cash indebtedness to the Centre; achieved a surplus of J$2

million; began developing a long-range strategy to enhance revenue

streams and generate electronic products and services; and worked

assiduously to achieve the goals of the UWI Press Strategic Plan, 2007–

2012, particularly by acquiring books in environmental and health

studies, by contributing to a vibrant indigenous publishing industry

throughout the Caribbean, by improving our international visibility and

our distribution networks, and by quickly and systematically confronting

global downturns and their impact on international and local scholarly

book sales and taking corrective actions.

In the report that follows, we have summarized specific Press activities

that directly support the goals of the UWI Press Strategic Plan, 2007–2012

accepted by the Finance and General Purpose Committee in January

2008. This provides a monitoring device and allows for clear

communication with our constituencies as we move to achieve all the

goals of the plan by 2012 despite the difficult economic environment.

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contributing to a vibrant indigenous

publishing industry throughout the Caribbean

Dr The Honourable Tim Gopeesingh, Minister ofEducation, Trinidad and Tobago, greets ProfessorSankat, Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal UWI StAugustine and Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Pro ViceChancellor and Principal UWI Cave Hill, and chairof the UWI Press Board of Directors.

B O O K S A N D J O U R N A L S P U B L I S H E D

During 2010–2011, the Press published twenty new books, three journals

and thirty reprints, bringing total publications to fifty-three.

Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters, edited by Rachael Irving and Vilma

Charlton

On the Treatment and Management of the More Common West-India

Diseases, 1750–1802, edited and annotated by J. Edward Hutson, with a

foreword by Henry Fraser, paperback

Health Communication in the Caribbean and Beyond: A Reader, edited by

Godfrey Steele

Cultural DNA: Gender at the Roots of Everyday Life, Diana Fox

Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla

Haiti Rising: Essays on Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010,

edited by Martin Munro

Jamaican Theatre: Highlights of the Performing Arts in the Twentieth

Century, Wycliffe Bennett and Hazel Bennett, with a foreword by Rex

Nettleford


Expand and grow publication programme by moving from publishing 35 booksand reprints annually to publishing 45 scholarly books and reprints that contributesignificantly to furthering intellectual discourse and regional development.

Strategic Goal 1

Edward Seaga and the Challenges of Modern Jamaica, Patrick E. Bryan,

paperback

Ye Shall Dream: Patriarch Granville Williams and the Barbados Spiritual

Baptists, Ezra E.H. Griffith, cloth


Baptists, Ezra E.H. Griffith, paperback

Bindi: The Multifaceted Lives of Indo-Caribbean Women, edited by Roseanne

Kanhai

British-Controlled Trinidad and Venezuela: A History of Economic Interests

and Subversion, 1830–1962, Kelvin Singh

Jamaica in 1687: The Taylor Manuscript at the National Library of Jamaica,

David Buisseret, paperback

“They do as they please”: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom after

Morant Bay, Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson, cloth

“They do as they please”: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom after

Morant Bay, Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson, paperback

West Indian Business History: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, edited by

B.W. Higman and Kathleen E.A. Monteith

A History of Money and Banking in Barbados, 1627–1973, Eric Armstrong,

with a foreword by Sir Keith Hunte

A Practical Introduction to Econometric Methods: Classical and Modern,

Patrick K. Watson and Sonja S. Teelucksingh, paperback

The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a

Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799–1851, Winston James

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Monetary Policy, Central Banking and Economic Performance in the

Caribbean, Derick Boyd and Ron Smith

Journal of Caribbean History 44, number 1



The following thirty books were reprinted by traditional means, digitized,

or produced as short run digital titles to meet ongoing course demand, to

conserve cash and to ensure sufficient stock for academics, students,

wholesalers, libraries and our distributor in Jamaica, Kingston Bookshop,

Ltd:


The George Beckford Papers, edited by George Beckford and Kari Levitt

Christianity in the Caribbean: Essays on Church History, edited by

Armando Lampe

Time for Action: Report of the West Indian Commission, Postscript by

Sir Shridath Ramphal

Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s

Poetry, Patricia Ismond

Learning to Be a Man: Culture, Socialization and Gender Identity in Five

Caribbean Communities, Barry Chevannes

Natural Research Management for Sustainable Development in the

Caribbean, edited by Ivan Goodbody and Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Contrary Voices: Representations of West Indian Slavery, 1657–1834, edited

by Karina Williamson


Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and

Society at Risk, edited by Duncan McGregor, David Dodman and David

Barker

Inside Hillview High School: An Ethnography of an Urban Jamaican School,

Hyacinth Evans

The Brain Train: Quality Higher Education and Caribbean Development,

Hilary McD. Beckles, Anthony Perry, Peter Whiteley

Don’t Burn Our Bridges: The Case for Owning Caribbean Airlines,

Jean S. Holder

New Caribbean Thought: A Reader, edited by Brian Meeks and Folke

Lindahl

The Portuguese Jews of Jamaica, Mordechai Arbell



Maharani’s Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean,

Verene A. Shepherd


Armando Lampe

The Shaping of the West Indian Church, 1492–1962, Arthur Charles

Dayfoot

Slaves Who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in Rebellion, Richard Hart

Caribbean Theology: Preparing for the Challenges Ahead, edited by

Howard Gregory

West Indian Business History: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, edited by

B.W. Higman and Kathleen E.A. Monteith

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Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination,

Charles W. Mills

A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States, Isaac Dookhan

Manuscript Sources for the History of the West Indies, K.E. Ingram

Identity and Secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980,

Learie Luke

Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage and Culture, edited by

Kathleen E.A. Monteith and Glen Richards

Natural Research Management for Sustainable Development in the

Caribbean, edited by Ivan Goodbody and Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Research: The Journey from Pondering to Publishing, edited by

Serwan M.J. Baban

In addition, the following seventeen titles are “in press”:

Natural Hazards Atlas of Jamaica, Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr and Rafi Ahmad

Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical

Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes, William Hillary; edited by J. Edward

Hutson and Henry S. Fraser

Scientific Principles of Stress, James Mills


Social Psychological Dynamics, edited by Derek Chadee and Alexsandra

Kostic

Becoming Belize: A History of an Outpost of Empire Searching for Identity,

1528–1823, Mavis Campbell

Border Crossings: Caribbean Women Writers, edited by Nicole Roberts and

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

From Tin Pan to TASPO: Steelband in Trinidad, 1939–1951, Kim Johnson

Proslavery Priest: The Atlantic World of John Lindsay, 1729–1788, B.W.

Higman

Pak’s Britannica: Articles and Interviews with David Dabydeen, Lynne

Macedo

Talking Words: New Essays on the Work of David Dabydeen, Lynne Macedo

Hope Transformed: A Historical Sketch of the Hope Landscape, St Andrew,

Jamaica 1660–1960, Veront Satchell

Anansi’s Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance, Emily Zobel

Marshall

Caribbean Heritage, edited by Basil Reid

Golokwati: A tidalectics history of our thymes, vol. 1, Kamau Brathwaite

Golokwati: A tidalectics history of our thymes, vol. 2, Kamau Brathwaite

Love and Power: Caribbean Discourses on Gender, edited by V. Eudine

Barriteau

Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music,

edited by Ifeona Fulani

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During 2010–2011, UWI Press management spent considerable time in

supporting, sustaining and promoting the nascent book-publishing

industry in the Caribbean. Press management served on the boards of the

Book Industry Association of Jamaica; the Caribbean Publishers Network;

Caribbean Quarterly and the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. The Press

was also a member of the Caribbean Working Party, the Jamaican

Copyright Licensing Agency and the Association of American University

Presses.

Once again, the Press chaired the Biennial BIAJ National Publishing

Awards Committee. The Eleventh Biennial BIAJ National Publishing and

Writing Awards competition promotes, recognizes and celebrates

Jamaican publishing and writing excellence.

The BIAJ expanded the award categories and introduced Readers’ Choice

Awards to stimulate public discussion of books and literacy. A remarkable

105 entries were received. In the last three previous competitions, the

entries numbered 53, 24, and 35 respectively. A record-breaking

$229,790 in entry fees was received, more than twice the amount received

in previous competitions.

The award competition was held during a week of activities, which

included the launch and preview of the Kingston 2012 Book Festival,

jointly sponsored by BIAJ and CAPNET.


Assume a more active role regionally and internationally in the publishing industry.

Strategic Goal 2

C A R I B B E A N P U B L I S H I N G N E T W O R K S

A new CAPNET council was elected and given the mandate of

reinvigorating the organization. A web page was launched and workshops

and a news conference were held with the cooperation of the BIAJ.

CAPNET was very active in beginning to develop an extensive application

for a European Union culture grant of US$400,000 under the auspices of

the ACP-EU. There will be an additional call for grants in 2012.

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UWI Press management spent considerable time insupporting, sustaining and promoting the nascent book-publishing industry in the Caribbean. Press managementserved on the boards of the Book Industry Association ofJamaica; the Caribbean Publishers Network (CAPNET)

C O N F E R E N C E S , L E C T U R E S , E X H I B I T S , S A L E S C A L L S , L A U N C H E S , C A T A L O G U E S ,R E V I E W S , A W A R D S A N D H O N O U R S

The Press had a presence at twenty conferences, lectures and exhibits in

six countries, and undertook sales calls to Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad

and Tobago, and the United States. The two-member Marketing and Sales

Department is to be commended for the range and depth of their activities

within budget.

Mona Academic Conference

University of the West Indies

Jamaica

Frankfurt Book Fair

The Eurospan Group Stand

Germany

Research Day


Jamaica

Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics


Barbados


Highlight UWI’s research internationally, regionally and nationally.Strategic Goal 3

Orientation for Undergraduate Students


Jamaica

Inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference


Jamaica

Career Day


Jamaica

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UWI Press books andauthors are showcased atinternational book fairs, suchas the London Book Fair andthe Frankfurt Book Fair

The Press had apresence at twentyconferences, lecturesand exhibits in sixcountries, and undertooksales calls to Jamaica,Barbados, Trinidad andTobago, and the UnitedStates

Caribbean Reasonings Conference


Jamaica

UWI Press Eighteenth Anniversary and

Author Awards Ceremony


Trinidad and Tobago

Development Studies Association

London, United Kingdom

CARICOM and Commonwealth Conference


Jamaica

Eleventh Biennial BIAJ National Writing and

Publishing Awards

Jamaica

Twelfth Annual Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of

Social and Economic Studies Conference


Jamaica

Book Fair

University of Technology

Jamaica

UNITE to End Violence against Women

Bureau of Women’s Affairs

Jamaica

Literary Festival

University of Technology

Jamaica

Social Ethics Seminar

St Michael’s Theological College

Jamaica

International Studies Association

Canada

Canadian Association for African Studies

Canada

Latin American Studies Association

Canada


Opening of the UWI Press Eighteenth Anniversary and Author Awards Ceremony,Trinidad & Tobago

B O O K L A U N C H E S , R E A D I N G S A N D S I G N I N G S

Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla, Trinidad and Tobago

Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla, Jamaica

Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla, Jamaica

Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla, Trinidad and Tobago


Charlton, Jamaica

The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a

Pan-Africanist Pioneer, 1799–1851, Winston James, Jamaica

The Devil in the Details: Cuban Antislavery Narrative in the Postmodern Age,

Claudette M. Williams, Jamaica

Women in Grenadian History, 1783–1983, Nicole Laurine Phillip, Grenada

Export/Import Trends and Economic Development in Trinidad and Tobago,

1919–1939, Doddridge H.N. Alleyne, with an introduction by Bridget

Brereton, Trinidad and Tobago


and Subversion, 1830–1962, Kelvin Singh, Trinidad and Tobago

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Barbara Lalla launches Cascade: A Novel at theUWI Bookshop, Mona campus.

Rachael Irving and Vilma Charlton present a copyof their book Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters toMike Fennell the President of the Jamaica OlympicAssociation

S C H O L A R L Y A N D M E D I A B O O K R E V I E W S

Scholarly reviews in academic journals continue to be an important

means of disseminating scholarly information and generating sales to

academics and libraries. The Press has seen an increase in its tracked

reviews and it will continue to concentrate on emphasizing international

review coverage. With refinements in web-based searching, we have also

been able to discover Press books reviewed in international journals that

had not been previously reported.


by Karina Williamson, Oxford Journals (February 2011)

Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, edited by Annie Paul,

Caribbean Review of Books (2009)

Plantation Jamaica, 1750–1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy,

B.W. Higman, International Journal of Maritime History 49 (2009)

Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian, Maureen Warner-Lewis,

Journal of Historical Biography (Spring 2009)

Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, B.W. Higman, Journal of Food and

Culture 1 (2010)

Depression to Decolonization: Barclays Bank (DCO) in the West Indies,

1926–1962, Kathleen E.A. Monteith, Business History Review 84 (2010)

Jamaican Place Names, B.W. Higman and B.J. Hudson, NAMES (March

2011)

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan, History in Action

(March 2011)


The Press has seenan increase in itstracked reviews andit will continue toconcentrate onemphasizinginternational reviewcoverage.

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan, Sunday Stabroek News,

December 1, 2009

Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla, wordpress, January 2, 2011

Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica,

Obika Gray, wordpress, May 25, 2010


edited by Martin Munro, SHE Caribbean Magazine


Charlton, jamaicanliterature.com, November 30, 2010


Charlton, Jamaica Observer, January 2, 2011


Verene Shepherd, sawnet.org (February 2009)

The Devil in the Details: Cuban Antislavery Narrative in the Postmodern Age,

Claudette M. Williams, Caribbean Quarterly (December 2010)

The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taino, edited by

Lesley Gail-Atkinson, Caribbean Journal of Earth Science 41 (2011)

Identity and Secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980,

Learie Luke, Journal of Caribbean History 44, no. 1 (2010)

Lady Nugent’s Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805, edited

by Philip Wright, with a foreword by Verene A. Shepherd, Journal of

Caribbean History 44, no. 2 (2010)

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P R I N T A N D E L E C T R O N I C A D V E R T I S I N G

In order to provide more visibility for the University of the West Indies

and UWI Press authors, the Press prepared an ad campaign several

months ago and the following ads appeared in local and international

media.

P R I N T A D V E R T I S E M E N T S , J A M A I C A

Jamaica Gleaner, November 28, 2010, Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters,

edited by Rachael Irving and Vilma Charlton

Jamaica Observer, November 28, 2010, Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters,


Jamaica Observer, December 4, 2010, Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters,


Jamaica Gleaner, December 12, 2010, Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters,


Jamaica Observer, December 12, 2010, Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters,


P R I N T A N D E L E C T R O N I C A D V E R T I S E M E N T S , B A K E R & T A Y L O R , N O R T H A M E R I C A

Baker & Taylor (B&T) is the number one supplier of paper and digital

books to domestic and international libraries and has been in operation

for over 180 years. It accounts for 80 per cent of UWI Press book sales in

the North American market each year. “B&T primarily serves two types of


markets. Its core business distributes books, videos, and music, and

provides value-added services to thousands of school, public, and

specialty libraries worldwide. The firm’s retail unit supplies storefront and

Internet book and music retailers, as well as independent booksellers,

with a million book titles and about 385,000 DVD and CD titles”

(www.btol.com, retrieved April 5, 2011).

F R O N T L I S T A D V E R T I S M E N T S

Baker & Taylor Publisher’s Profile, Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters,


Baker & Taylor Forecast Magazine, Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters,


Baker & Taylor Homepage Feature, Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters,


Baker & Taylor Publisher’s Profile, Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla

Baker & Taylor Forecast Magazine, Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla

Baker & Taylor Homepage Feature, Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla

Baker & Taylor Forecast Magazine, Haiti Rising: Essays on Haitian

History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010, edited by Martin Munro

Baker & Taylor Forecast Magazine, Ye Shall Dream: Patriarch Granville

Williams and the Barbados Spiritual Baptists, Ezra E. H. Griffith, cloth

Baker & Taylor Forecast Magazine, Ye Shall Dream: Patriarch Granville

Williams and the Barbados Spiritual Baptists, Ezra E. H. Griffith, paperback

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B A C K L I S T A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures,

Maureen Warner-Lewis

The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean

and the World, Mervyn C. Alleyne

Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica,

Obika Gray

Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas, Alvin O.

Thompson

Inna di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica,

Donna P. Hope

In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750–86, Douglas

Hall

Jamaican Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing, edited by Arvilla Payne-

Jackson and Mervyn C. Alleyne

Inside Hillview High School: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Jamaican

School, Hyacinth Evans

Dictionary of Jamaican English, second edition, edited by F.G. Cassidy and

R.B. LePage

Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, edited by Richard Allsopp

New Register of Caribbean English Usage, edited by Richard Allsopp

Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1750–1890,

Steeve O. Buckridge


Contrary Voices: Representation of West Indian Slavery, 1657–1834, edited


Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian, Maureen Warner-Lewis


Armando Lampe

Essays on the Theory of Plantation Economy: A Historical and Institutional

Approach to Caribbean Economic Development, Lloyd Best and Kari Levitt

When Me Was a Boy, Charles Hyatt

Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses,

edited by Rhoda Reddock

Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the

Caribbean, edited by Eudine Barriteau

The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies during Slavery, Lucille

Mathurin Mair

U W I P R E S S B E S T S E L L E R S , B A K E R & T A Y L O R

( L I F E T I M E S A L E S )

Dictionary of Jamaican English, second edition, edited by F.G. Cassidy and

R.B. LePage

Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage and Culture, edited by

Kathleen Monteith and Glen Richards

Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas, Alvin O.

Thompson

A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States, Isaac Dookhan

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Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, edited by Richard Allsopp

The Portuguese Jews of Jamaica, Mordechai Arbell

Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women, Sistren with Honor

Ford-Smith

Inna di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica,

Donna P. Hope

Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures,

Maureen Warner-Lewis

The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica,

1760–1890, Steeve O. Buckridge

Jamaican Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing, Arvilla Payne-Jackson and

Mervyn C. Alleyne

In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750–86,

Douglas Hall

Culture @ the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music,

Curwen Best

Contrary Voices: Representations of West Indian Slavery, 1657–1834,

edited by Karina Williamson

A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844, edited by Lucille

Mathurin Mair, Hilary McD. Beckles and Verene A. Shepherd

Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian, Maureen Warner-Lewis




The Francophone Caribbean Today: Literature, Language, Culture, edited by

Gertrud Aub-Buscher and Beverly Ormerod Noakes

Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s

Poetry, Patricia Ismond

Caribbean Wars Untold: A Salute to the British West Indies, Humphrey

Metzgen and John Graham

Y A N K E E B O O K P E D D L E R A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Yankee Book Peddler provides books in digital and print format and

collection development support to libraries worldwide. In 1999, it was

purchased by Baker & Taylor.


Charlton



edited by Martin Munro


Baptists, Ezra E.H. Griffith, cloth


Baptists, Ezra E.H. Griffith, paperback

T V A N D R A D I O I N T E R V I E W S

Smile Jamaica TVJ, Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla

Nationwide News Network, Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters, edited by

Rachael Irving and Vilma Charlton

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KLAS Sports FM, Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters, edited by Rachael

Irving and Vilma Charlton



Newstalk 93 FM, Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the

Politics of Culture in Jamaica, Deborah A. Thomas

PRINT AND ELECTRONIC CATALOGUES AND FLYERS

During 2010–2011, thousands of print and electronic catalogues and

flyers featuring UWI Press books were distributed to individuals,

wholesalers, retailers, and libraries worldwide.

UWI Press New and Forthcoming Catalogue 2010

UWI Press New and Forthcoming Catalogue 2010–2011

Eurospan Group New Books Catalogue 2010

Eurospan Group History Catalogue 2010

Eurospan Literature Catalogue 2010

Eurospan Social Studies Catalogue 2010

Eurospan Environment Flyers 2010

Eurospan Politics Flyers 2010

Eurospan Environmental Studies Promotion via environmentalexpert.com

showcased UWI Press books in environmental studies to 1,000,000 global

environmental professionals

Scholarly Book Services Flyers, LASA Conference, Canada

During January 2011, a PDF of the UWI Press New and Forthcoming

Catalogue 2010– 2011 was sent to all UWI students, faculty and staff via

the following communication channels:

UWI Mona, Campus Pipeline

UWI Cave Hill, Marketing and Communications Office

UWI St Augustine, Marketing and Communications Office

M I S C E L L A N E O U S P U B L I C I T Y

UWI Press Eighteenth Anniversary and Author Awards Ceremony,

Caribbean Business News, October 19, 2010

UWI Press Eighteenth Anniversary and Author Awards Ceremony, SC

State University, Academic Affairs Newsletter, September 2010

UWI Press Eighteenth Anniversary and Author Awards Ceremony,

CaribZAR, October 19, 2011

UWI Press Eighteenth Anniversary and Author Awards Ceremony, UWI

STAN, Anniversary Issue 2010

Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla, UWI STAN, Anniversary Issue 2010

UWI Press Eighteenth Anniversary and Author Awards Ceremony, UWI

Mona, January 2011

Book Industry Association of Jamaica Publishing and Writing Awards

2011, Jamaica Observer, BookEnds, April 3, 2011

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During the last nineyears, UWI Press booksand authors haveconsistently dominatedthe book awardcategories in Humanitiesand Education and theSocial Sciences, winninga total of eleven bookawards in these twocategories.

Book Industry Association of Jamaica Publishing and Writing Awards

2011, Jamaica Observer, March 29, 2011

Various postings on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter

AWARD S , HONOUR S , I N DU S T R Y R ECOGN I T I ON

2010 Florida Print Awards

UWI Press New and Forthcoming Catalogue 2010

BE S T R E S E A RCH BOOK , UWI , F ACU L T Y O F

HUMAN I T I E S

Claudette M. Williams, Devil in the Details: Cuban Antislavery Narrative in

the Postmodern Age, Best Research Publication (Book), UWI, Mona,

Faculty of Humanities and Education, 2011.

During the last nine years, UWI Press books and authors have

consistently dominated the book award categories in Humanities and

Education and the Social Sciences, winning a total of eleven book awards

in these two categories.

FOR EWORD 2010 BOOK O F TH E Y E A R F I N A L I S T S


Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010, edited by

Martin Munro

ForeWord awards and finalists represent independent publishing at its

finest and are selected by librarians and booksellers. Approximately 350

publishers submitted 1,400 books in 56 categories and UWI Press was

delighted to have had two of its books chosen as finalists.


UWI Press Catalogue 2010 receivesprestigious Florida Print Award

BOOK I NDU S T R Y A S S OC I A T I ON O F J AMA I C A B E S TR E F E R ENC E BOOK , W INN E R



BOOK I NDU S T R Y A S S OC I A T I ON O F J AMA I C A B E S TACAD EM I C BOOK , HONOURA B L E MENT I ON

The Fiction of Robert Antoni: Writing in the Estuary, Richard F. Patteson

The Eleventh Biennial BIAJ Publishing and Writing Awards Ceremony

was the most competitive in history, with more than 105 entries

submitted in seventeen categories. Historically, UWI Press books have

dominated the Best Academic and Best Reference Book categories and

have also been strong contenders for Best Adult Non-Fiction and Best

Cover categories.

Over the last eighteen years, UWI Press books have received forty-six

local, regional and international awards.

S E L E C T ED TE X T BOOK ADO P T I ON S


Charlton, 500 copies

Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1760–1890,

Steeve O. Buckridge, 200 copies

Out of Order: Anthony Winkler and White West Indian Writing, Kimberly

Robinson-Walcott, 250 copies

Philosophy and the West Indian Novel, Earl McKenzie, 250 copies

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Over the last eighteenyears, UWI Press bookshave received forty-sixlocal, regional andinternational awards.

Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses,

edited by Rhoda Reddock, 80 copies


Verene Shepherd, 133 copies

C O N C L U S I O N

Despite the ongoing financial challenges presented by uncertain markets

for print sales, UWI Press is positioned to achieve the goals of the UWI

Press Strategic Plan, 2007–2012 and we ended a challenging year with a

surplus of J$2 million. We will continue to carefully monitor

discretionary costs, emphasize revenue growth, and carefully acquire

books in environmental and health studies. As the Press ends its second

decade, its partnerships with UWI faculty, its authors and the ministries

of education will be critical in fostering its viability and growth. By

emphasizing the peer-review process and by pursuing international

standards of excellence and benchmarks, UWI Press books will attract

attention in the global marketplace and the academy while the Press

continually strives to effectively sell these books in a cost-effective, ever-

innovative manner. As it confronts the new marketplace for digital and

print books, the Press will begin to develop and refine its overarching

digital strategy to diversify revenue streams.


As the Press ends itssecond decade, itspartnerships with UWIfaculty, its authors and theministries of education willbe critical in fostering itsviability and growth. Byemphasizing the peer-review process and bypursuing internationalstandards of excellenceand benchmarks . . .

Dr Learie Luke, author of Identity and Secession in the Caribbean:Tobago versus Trinidad, receives the award for bestselling revised dissertation from UWI Press finance manager Nadine Buckland

Professor Barbara Lalla, author of Cascade: A Novel, receives theinaugural fiction award from UWI Press finance manager NadineBuckland

Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr, co-author with Rafi Ahmad of Natural HazardsAtlas of Jamaica, receives the award for outstanding publishing proposal (environmental) studies from UWI Press managing editorShivaun Hearne

Robert Harris receives the award for outstanding designer from UWIPress managing editor Shivaun Hearne

Linda Speth, UWI Press general manager, receives a long-serviceaward from Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Pro Vice Chancellor andPrincipal, UWI, Cave Hill, and chair of the UWI Press Board of Directors

Nadine Buckland, UWI Press finance manager, receives a long-serviceaward from Errol Simms, head and senior lecturer, Department ofManagement Studies, UWI, St Augustine

Shivaun Hearne, UWI Press managing editor, receives a long-serviceaward from Errol Simms, head and senior lecturer, Department ofManagement Studies, UWI, St Augustine

Donna Muirhead, UWI Press marketing and sales manager, receives along-service award from Errol Simms, head and senior lecturer,Department of Management Studies, UWI, St Augustine

Karen Smith, UWI Press marketing and sales assistant, receives a long-service award from Errol Simms, head and senior lecturer,Department of Management Studies, UWI, St Augustine

Author Awards Ceremony


UWI Press Annual Report 2010-2011

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