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. -- .
ISBN: | 9780719078767 |
Publication date: | 1st June 2010 |
Author: | Mary Chamberlain |
Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 232 pages |
Series: | Studies in Imperialism |
Genres: |
Colonialism and imperialism History of the Americas |