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The End of Empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-69, Britain and the World

ISBN: 0230278183
ISBN 13: 9780230278189
Autor: Mawby, S
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: x, 312 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

First comprehensive account of decolonisation in the Anglophone Caribbean based on research into British, Caribbean and American archivesIncludes coverage of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, the Windwards, the Leewards and British GuianaChallenges current accounts which emphasise the failures of Caribbean nationalist leadership and provides a new assessment of the inadequacies of metropolitan decision makingIncludes new information on the Cold War in the Caribbean, controversies over British immigration policy, the collapse of the federation in 1961 and arguments over British financial assistance to the region

Artikelnummer: 9053693 Kategorie:

Beschreibung

Spencer Mawby analyses the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.

Autorenporträt

SPENCER MAWBY is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham, UK, who writes and teaches on the end of the British empire. His previous books include Containing Germany (Palgrave, 1999) and British Policy in Aden and the Protectorates (Routledge, 2005).

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E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com

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