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9780521435451

Freedoms Won: Caribbean Emancipations, Ethnicities and Nationhood

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521435451

  • ISBN10:

    0521435455

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-01-16
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Topics covered in Freedoms Won include: aftermath of emancipation; African-Caribbean peasantry; Asian arrival in the Caribbean; social and political experiences of the working classes in the immediate post-slavery period; the Caribbean economy; US intervention and imperialist tendencies from the 18th century; the Labour Movement in the Caribbean in the 20th century; the social life and culture of the Caribbean people and social protest; decolonisation and nationhood.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The limits of emancipation: freedom contained in Haiti: 1804+1844
Freedom without liberty: 1833+1886
New rights - old wrongs: 1804+1890
The African-Caribbean peasantry
Peasants and production
Immigrant labourers: new terms of bondage
Indian arrival
Chinese, Javanese and other arrivals
The new working classes: social and political experiences: 1834+1900
Re-organised sugar economy: 1846+c. 1985
Agricultural diversification and industrialisation
Emigration and the economy
US political influence and military intervention since the 19th Century
The labour movement and development
Caribbean civilisation I: social life and culture: 1888+1962
Caribbean civilisation II: work, leisure and artistic culture
Nationalism, decolonisation, independence
Political leaders, national freedom and regional integration
References and sources for further research
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