Ordering Independence The End of Empire in

Spencer Mawby analyzes 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.

Spencer Mawby is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham, UK. He writes and teaches on the end of the British empire. His previous books include Containing Germany (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999) and British Policy in Aden and the Protectorates (2005).

Series Editors' Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Map	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Characterising the Anglophone Caribbean	p. 4
Themes in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean	p. 9
Interpreting the end of empire in the Anglophone Caribbean	p. 17
Themes and arguments	p. 21
The Struggle for Independence 1947-1952	p. 29
Standing closer in the Caribbean	p. 30
Manley, Bustamante and constitutional reform in Jamaica	p. 42
Small island turmoil	p. 53
Conclusion	p. 69
Ordering the Islands 1952-1958	p. 71
The Cold War in the Caribbean	p. 72
Politics, race and reform in Barbados and Trinidad	p. 94
Building a West Indian State	p. 109
Conclusion	p. 123
The Triumph of Disorder 1958-1962	p. 125
The federation against neo-imperialism: Chaguaramas	p. 126
The federation for itself: aid and immigration	p. 139
The federation against itself: the origins of the Jamaican referendum	p. 150
The independence race: Trinidad versus Jamaica	p. 169
Conclusion	p. 179
Order and Disorder between Dependence and Independence 1962-1969	p. 181
Decolonisation deferred in British Guiana	p. 182
The Eastern Caribbean federation and Barbadian independence	p. 204
The Windwards, the Leewards and Associated Statehood	p. 215
Conclusion	p. 231
Conclusion	p. 233
Authoritarianism and democratic politics in the Anglophone Caribbean	p. 234
Development, dependency and overseas intervention in the Anglophone Caribbean	p. 240
Britain and the Anglophone Caribbean at the end of empire	p. 244
Notes	p. 254
Bibliography	p. 286
Index	p. 299
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Ordering Independence The End of Empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-69

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