Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar - Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918

Informationen zum Autor Walton Look Lai is Lecturer in History at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. He is a former Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the Asian American Center, Queen's College, City University of New York. Klappentext In "Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar" Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies--with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist" model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting pot" or "pure pluralist" model. Zusammenfassung Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralistmodel of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting potor "pure pluralistmodel.

Product details

• Authors: Walton Look Lai, Look, Walton Look Lai
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2004
• EAN: 9780801877469
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7746-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlan; Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture; Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history, Sociology: work & labour, Slavery & abolition of slavery, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Sociology: work and labour, National liberation and independence, Slavery and abolition of slavery, West Indies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General