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The colonial Caribbean in transition, essays on postemancipation social and cultural history, edited by Bridget Brereton and Kevin A. Yelvington

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The colonial Caribbean in transition, essays on postemancipation social and cultural history, edited by Bridget Brereton and Kevin A. Yelvington
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-310) and index
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government publication level undetermined
Illustrations
illustrationsmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The colonial Caribbean in transition
Nature of contents
abstracts summaries
Responsibility statement
edited by Bridget Brereton and Kevin A. Yelvington
Sub title
essays on postemancipation social and cultural history
Table Of Contents
The promise of emancipation / Bridget Brereton and Kevin A. Yelvington -- The colonial state, religion, and the control of labour: Jamaica, 1760-1834 / Mary Turner -- Black testators: fragments of the lives of free African and free Creole Blacks in Trinidad, 1813-1877 / Carl Campbell -- The wage problem in Trinidad and Tobago, 1838-1938 / James Millette -- Family strategies, gender, and the shift to wage labour in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton -- Leisure and society in postemancipation Guyana / Brian L. Moore -- Colonial images of Blacks and Indians in nineteenth century Guyana / Robert J. Moore -- The Madeiran Portuguese woman in Guyanese society, 1830-1930 / M Noel Menezes -- Rice, culture, and government in Trinidad, 1897-1939 / Glenroy Taitt -- The war in Ethiopia and Trinidad, 1935-1936 / Kevin A. Yelvington -- Non-traditional sources for the study of the Trinidad disturbances of the 1930s / Brinsley Samaroo -- "We were going to found a nation...": dramatic representa
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