Freedoms Won - Caribbean Emancipations, Ethnicities and Nationhood

Klappentext An essential book for students and teachers written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians. Zusammenfassung An essential book for students and teachers written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The limits of emancipation: freedom contained in Haiti 1804-1844, 2. Freedom without liberty:1833-1866, 3. New rights-old wrongs, 1804-1890, 4. The African-Caribbean peasantry, 5. Peasants and production, 6. Immigrant labourers - new terms of bondage, 7. Indian arrival, 8. Chinese, Javanaese and other arrivals, 9. The new working classes: social and political experiences 1834-1900, 10. Re-organised sugar economy 1846-circa 1985, 11. Agricultural diversification and industrialisation, 12. Emigration and the economy, 13. US poliltical influence and military intervention since the 19th Century, 14. The labour movement and development, 15. Caribbean civilisation1: social life and culture 1888-1962. 16. Caribbean civilisation 2: work, leisure and artistic culture, 17. Nationalism, decolonisation, independence, 18. Political leaders, national freedom and regional integration.

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• Authors: Hilary McD Beckles, Hilary McD. Beckles, Hilary MCD. Shepherd Beckles, Professor Hilary McD. Beckles, Professor Hilary MCD. Shepherd Beckles, Verene A. Shepherd
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521435451
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43545-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)