Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean
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- ISBN 9780719078767
- Weight: 503g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2010
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This original and exciting book 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-colonisation and nation building.
