Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937–66

di Mary Chamberlain (Autore)

Manchester University Press, 2010

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. -- .

• Autore: Mary Chamberlain
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Collana: Studies in Imperialism
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 232 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• EAN: 9780719078767

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