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.
Studies the way a post-colonial society reconstructs its history and grapples with its past, specifically in Port Royal, a Jamaican village with a dramatic history of pirates, naval admirals, and earthquakes. This book shows how the plans for Port Royal's heritage tourism development represent a chronological record of historical revisionism.
