ISBN:
9781135210984
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (209 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Small Islands, Large Questions : Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean
DDC:
306.09729
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Part I Introduction and Historiography; Emancipation and Its Consequences; Post-Emancipation Historiography of the Leeward Islands; Part II Society and Culture; 'They Couldn't Mash Ants': The Decline of the White and Non-White Elites in Antigua, 1834-1900; From Labour to Peasantry in Montserrat after the End of Slavery; Land, Kinship and Community in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean: A Regional View of the Leewards; Cultural Complexity after Freedom: Nevis and Beyond; Part III Migration and Resistance
Description / Table of Contents:
Post-Emancipation Resistance in the Caribbean: An Overview'Our Side': Caribbean Immigrant Labourers and the Transition to Free Labour on St. Croix, 1849-79; Island Systems and the Paradox of Freedom: Migration in the Post-Emancipation Leeward Islands; Part IV Postscript; The Wayward Leewards; Notes on Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
