Planning the Past: Heritage Tourism and Post-Colonial Politics at Port Royal

By Anita M. Waters

Caribbean Studies Association 2007 Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Award Honorable Mention

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Planning the Past studies the way a post-colonial society reconstructs its national history and grapples with its colonial past, specifically in Port Royal, a Jamaican village with a dramatic history of pirates, naval admirals, and earthquakes. Anita M. Waters argues that the plans for Port Royal's heritage tourism development represent a chronological record of historical revisionism, and the fact that none of the plans has been realized reflects post-colonial social processes and national ambivalence about piratical and naval history. This interdisciplinary study will be valuable reading for students of historiography, piracy, Caribbean history, Caribbean politics, and heritage tourism.

About the Author
Anita M. Waters is associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Denison University.

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