Ordering Independence
The End of Empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-69
1st Edition
Published on 20. August 2012
X, 312 pages
978-1-137-26289-9 (ISBN)
Description
Spencer Mawby analyses the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.
Reviews / Votes
"Ordering Independence examines the decolonization of the Anglophone Caribbean. . Undergraduate and postgraduate students . will love Mawby's work. It covers after all the whole region and provides them with a step-by-step overview of the negotiations between nationalist leaders and British policymakers." (Henrice Altink, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 51 (1), 2016)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
X, 312 p.
File size
1,81 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-26289-9 (9781137262899)
DOI
10.1057/9781137262899
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Person
SPENCER MAWBY is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham, UK, who writes and teaches on the end of the British empire. His previous books include
Containing Germany
(Palgrave, 1999) and
British Policy in Aden and the Protectorates
(Routledge, 2005).
Content
Introduction The Struggle for Independence 1947-1952 Ordering the Islands 1952-1958 The Triumph of Disorder 1958-1962 Order and Disorder Between Dependence and Independence 1962-1969 Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
