Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937-66
Mary Chamberlain
Abstract
This book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies. It argues that nation building was a 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, the book tells the messy, multiple stories of how a colony progressed to a nation. It tells all sides of the in ... More
Keywords: nation building, British West Indies, Barbados, colonies, independence, history of Empire, Caribbean, de-colonisation, social activities, cultural activities
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719078767 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719078767.001.0001 |
