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Ordering independence : the end of empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-1969 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mawby, Spencer, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Series:Britain and the world.
Subjects:
Caribbean Area > History > 1945-
Decolonization > Caribbean Area > History > 20th century.
Nationalism > Caribbean Area > History > 20th century.
Caribbean Area > Politics and government > 1945-
Caribbean Area > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Caribbean Area.
Table of Contents:
  • The struggle for independence 1947-1952
  • Standing closer in the Caribbean
  • Manley, Bustamante and constitutional reform in Jamaica
  • Small island turmoil
  • Ordering the islands 1952-1958
  • The Cold War in the Caribbean
  • Politics, race and reform in Trinidad and Barbados
  • Building a West Indian state
  • The triumph of disorder 1958-1962
  • The federation against neo-imperialism: Chaguaramas
  • The federation for itself: aid and immigration
  • The federation against itself: the origins of the Jamaican Referendum
  • The independence race: Trinidad v. Jamaica
  • Order and disorder between dependence and independence 1962-1969
  • Decolonisation deferred in British guiana
  • The eastern Caribbean Federation and Barbadian independence
  • The Windwards, the Leewards and associated statehood.