| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 319 pages) : illustrations, map |
| 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 |
| Summary |
For review see: Aviston Downes, in Slavery & Abolition : a journal of slave and post-slave studies, vol. 21, no. 3 (December 2000); p. 172-175. - Rosemarijn Hoefte, in The Hispanic American Historical Review (HAHR), 82, 1 (February 2002); p. 156-157 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-310) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- General.
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Civilization
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Caribbean Area -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020280
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West Indies -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Caribbean Area
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West Indies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brereton, Bridget, 1946-
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Yelvington, Kevin A., 1960-
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| ISBN |
0813022223 |
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9780813022222 |
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