The colonial Caribbean in transition : essays on postemancipation social and cultural history / edited by Bridget Brereton and Kevin A. Yelvington.

Other author Brereton, Bridget, 1946-
Other author Yelvington, Kevin A., 1960-
Format Book
Publication InfoBarbados : Press University of the West Indies ; Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1999.
Descriptionxxiii, 319 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Subjects
Caribbean Area--Civilization.

Contents The promise of emancipation / Bridget Brereton and Kevin A. Yelvington -- The colonial state, religion, and the control of labour: Jamaica, 1760-1834 / Mary Turner -- Black testators: fragments of the lives of free African and free Creole Blacks in Trinidad, 1813-1877 / Carl Campbell -- The wage problem in Trinidad and Tobago, 1838-1938 / James Millette -- Family strategies, gender, and the shift to wage labour in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton -- Leisure and society in postemancipation Guyana / Brian L. Moore -- Colonial images of Blacks and Indians in nineteenth century Guyana / Robert J. Moore -- The Madeiran Portuguese woman in Guyanese society, 1830-1930 / M Noel Menezes -- Rice, culture, and government in Trinidad, 1897-1939 / Glenroy Taitt -- The war in Ethiopia and Trinidad, 1935-1936 / Kevin A. Yelvington -- Non-traditional sources for the study of the Trinidad disturbances of the 1930s / Brinsley Samaroo -- "We were going to found a nation...": dramatic representations of Haitian history by three Martinician writers / Bridget Jones.
Local noteLittle-321773--305131023625V
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-310) and index.
LCCN 98053065
ISBN976640030X (Press University of the West Indies)
ISBN0813016967 (University Press of Florida : cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks F2169 .C66 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold