Mary Chamberlain

Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean

Barbados, 1937-66

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Produktbeschreibung

"Empire and Nation-building in the Caribbean" is an original and exciting book that examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies.  It argues that nation building was a more complex and messy affair, involving women and men in a range of social and cultural activities, in a variety of migratory settings, within a unique geo-political context. Taking as a case study Barbados which, in the 1930s, was the most economically impoverished, racially divided, socially disadvantaged and politically conservative of the British West Indian colonies, Empire and Nation-Building  tells the messy, multiple stories of how a colony progressed to a nation. It is the first book to tell all sides of the independence story and will be of interest to specialists and non-specialists interested in the history of Empire, the Caribbean, of de-colonization and nation building.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780719078767
• ISBN-10: 0719078768
• Artikelnr.: 28966671

Autorenporträt

Mary Chamberlain is Emeritus Professor of Caribbean History at Oxford Brookes University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The 'romance' of foreign: distance,
perspective and an inclusive nationhood 3. The exigencies of 'home':
Barbadian poverty and British nation-building 4. Gender and the moral
economy 5. Race, nation and the politics of memory 6. A common language of
the spirit': cultural awakenings and national belongings 7. From diffidence
to desperation: the British, the Americans, the war and the move to
Federation 8. Conclusion Bibliography Tables Index