Caribbean Freedom
Economy and Society from Emancipation to the Present
Published on 1. January 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
500 pages
978-0-85255-711-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection focuses on the economical and social changes in the Caribbean since the Emancipation, assessing those changes from a historical perspective.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 183 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-711-2 (9780852557112)
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Content
Introduction - I: EXPECTATIONS OF A NEW BEGINNING - Toussa int L'Ouverture and the War Economy of Saint Dominigue, 17 96-1802 by M. Lundahl - 'We be wise to many more tings': B lacks' Hopes and Expectation of Emancipation by W. Marshal l - Former Slaves: Responses to Emancipation in Cuba by R. Scott - The Creolization of Caribbean History by W. Green - II: EMANCIPATION IN ACTION - The Evolution of Land & ; Labour in the Haitian Revolution 1721-1820 by R. LaCerte - Emancipation in Action: Workers & Wage Conflict in Jamaica, 1838-1840 by S. Wilmot - The Flight from the Esta tes Reconsidered: The British West Indies 1838-1842 by D. Hall - Metayage in the Sugar Industry of the Britih Windwa rd Islands, 1838-1865 by W. Marshall - Labour Relations in Post-Slavery Martinique & Guadeluope by R.R. Renard - III: PEASANTS & PLANTERS - The Origins of Reconstitut ed Peasantries by S. Mintz - Notes on Peasant Development in the West Indies since 1838 by W. Marshall - Systems of Domination after Slavery by N. Bolland - The Share Sytem i n the Bahamas in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centur ies by H. Johnson. (Part contents)