http://hdl.handle.net/2139/11057 Volume 1 No 1 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:41:34 GMT 2013-05-20T02:41:34Z http://hdl.handle.net/2139/11066 Book review: history of the Church of the Nazarene in Trinidad and Tobago Teelucksingh, Jerome The book is an account of the educational and spiritual endeavours of the Church of the Nazarene during its 82 years of existence in Trinidad and Tobago. In the review of Gelien Matthews’s book, I commented on the strengths of the publication. The author provides scholarly insight into the operation and organization of a vibrant Christian denomination. The study will certainly be of value to persons interested in the local history of Trinidad and Tobago. Matthews’s lucid writing style will enable anyone to read and appreciate the mission of the Nazarene Church in Trinidad and Tobago. I have also focused on her use of sources. The footnotes and bibliography reveal diverse sources, such as journals, websites, interviews, and the Church’s manuals and monographs. The book’s seven chapters explore various aspects of the Church of the Nazarene including its global mission, the role of the District Superintendent and the functioning of District Boards and Auxiliaries. The historical snapshots will provide the reader with an insight into both the contributions and challenges of the Nazarene Church. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2139/11066 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2139/11065 The revolutionary (re-)valorization of ‘peasant’ production and implications for small-scale farming in present-day Cuba Wilson, Marisa In this article, I outline a historical shift in Cuban ideology from the 1950s to the 1960s that has continued to affect the way land and its products are utilized and distributed in Cuba. While prior to the late 1950s and/or early 1960s, campesinos ('peasants’) in Cuba were associated with the most exploited class, after the second agrarian reform of 1963 a majority were officially identified as the most exploitative class. As the acceptable size of private landholdings shrunk, the organisation of small-scale production and distribution grew more and more centralised. In the process, locally-grown food became less and less accessible. Since the 1990s, however, a new model for the agriculture sector has emerged in Cuba that treats small-scale production for the national food basket as a matter of national security. Yet opportunities for present-day campesinos are still inexorably linked to historical processes of value-formation in the Cuban agrarian economy. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2139/11065 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2139/11064 The history of the only rabies epidemic in Trinidad and Tobago (1923-1937) Mungrue, Kameel This paper reviews historically the only rabies epidemic in Trinidad which occurred between 1923 and 1937, and the ensuing epidemiological investigation that led to new knowledge of the disease. It chronicles the events that led to crucial experiments, which provided evidence for the first time, that bats were capable of transmitting rabies. The epidemic began among cattle in 1923 and progressed without being recognised as rabies, with many alternative diagnoses offered. The epidemic mysteriously and suddenly jumps the species barrier to spread to humans,which accounted for 84 deaths between 1929 and 1937. The disease in cattle and man was not recognised as the same until 1931. Once it became clear that the disease was rabies and the bat the agent for transmitting the disease, public health measures were implemented to arrest the epidemic. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2139/11064 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2139/11063 Friend or foe? Venereal diseases and the American presence in Trinidad and Tobago during World War II McCollin, Debbie While there has been extensive scholarship into sexually transmitted diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS in the latter part of the twentieth century, and a very rudimentary understanding of `a VD problem’ during World War II, little specific research has been conducted into the escalation and the control of this `problem’ in the war, far less its significance to the colony’s wider development. Thus, this work investigates the culpability of foreign forces, specifically the Americans stationed in the colony during the war, in the dramatic escalation of VDs. Conversely, it also examines their contribution to the development of the first comprehensive VD control campaigns, especially for syphilis and gonorrhea, and thus establishes concretely the dualism which is prominent in this period, of the American military as friend and foe, as impediment and facilitator in the control of some of the most prominent diseases and generally in the advancement of healthcare in the colony. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2139/11063 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z