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- ISBN: 9781558761285 | 1558761284
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/1/1996
Preface | |
Introduction | |
Acknowledgements | |
Expectations of a New Beginning | |
Toussain L'Ouverture and the War Economy of Saint Dominigue, 1796-1802 | p. 2 |
'We be wise to many more tings': Blacks' Hopes and Expectations of Emancipation | p. 12 |
Former Slaves: Responses to Emancipation in Cuba | p. 21 |
The Creolization of Caribbean History: The Emancipation Era and a Critique of Dialectical Analysis | p. 28 |
Emancipation in Action | |
The Evolution of Land and Labour in the Haitian Revolution 1791-1820 | p. 42 |
Emancipation in Action: Workers and Wage Conflict in Jamaica, 1838-1840 | p. 48 |
The Flight from the Estates Reconsidered: The British West Indies 1838-1842 | p. 55 |
Metayage in the Sugar Industry of the British Windward Islands, 1838-1865 | p. 64 |
Labour Relations in Post-Slavery Martinique and Guadeloupe 1848-1870 | p. 80 |
Peasants and Planters | |
The Origins of Reconstituted Peasantries | p. 94 |
Notes on Peasant Development in the West Indies since 1838 | p. 99 |
Systems of Domination after Slavery: The Control of Land and Labour in the British West Indies after 1838 | p. 107 |
The Share System in the Bahamas in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries | p. 124 |
Immigrants and Indentured Labourers | |
Chinese Contract Labour in Cuba, 1847-1874 | p. 132 |
The Evolution of Long-term Labour Contracts in Trinidad and British Guiana, 1834-1863 | p. 141 |
The Social Impact of Portuguese Immigration into British Guiana after Emancipation | p. 152 |
Immigration and Indentureship in the French West Indies, 1848-1870 | p. 161 |
Government, Political Control and Popular Revolt | |
Before and After 1865 | p. 170 |
The Abortive Revolution of 1876 in Barbados | p. 181 |
Continuity Not Change: The Incidence of Unrest among Ex-slaves in the British West Indies, 1838-1876 | p. 192 |
Control and Resistance Among Overseas Indian Workers: A Study of Labour on the Sugar Plantations of Trinidad, 1875-1917 | p. 207 |
Women and Gender | |
Gender Roles in Caribbean Agricultural Labour | p. 216 |
Indian Women and Indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago, 1845-1917 | p. 225 |
Black Women, Economic Roles and Cultural Traditions | p. 238 |
Emancipation through Servitude: Aspects of the Condition of Indian Women in Jamaica 1845-1945 | p. 245 |
Women and Crime in Late 19th Century Trinidad | p. 259 |
Social Policy and Class Formation | |
Social and Economic Obstacles to the Development of Popular Education in Post-emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1865 | p. 262 |
The Development of Medical Services in Trinidad and British Guiana, 1841-1873 | p. 269 |
The Development of an Identity: The Black Middle Class of Trinidad in the later 19th Century | p. 274 |
The Black Middle Class in 19th Century Jamaica | p. 284 |
Consensus and Conflict over the Provision of Elementary Education | p. 296 |
The Sugar Industry: Crisis and Adjustments | |
The British Sugar Duties and West Indian Prosperity | p. 314 |
Patterns of Investments and Credit in the British West Indian Sugar Industry, 1838-1897 | p. 319 |
Plantations in the Caribbean: Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the late 19th Century | p. 330 |
American Capitalism and the Caribbean Economy | p. 341 |
The Labour Movement: Decolonization and Democracy | |
The Ruimveldt Riots: Demerara, British Guiana, 1905 | p. 352 |
Marcus Garvey, the Caribbean, and the Struggle for Black Jamaican Nationhood | p. 359 |
Labour Rebellions of the 1930s | p. 370 |
The 1930s Social Revolution | p. 376 |
Economic Diversification and Transformation | |
Industrialization of the West Indies | p. 394 |
Character of the Caribbean Economy | p. 405 |
Operation Bootstrap and Economic Change in Puerto Rico | p. 421 |
The Industrialization of the Netherlands West Indies | p. 436 |
Political and Economic Integration | |
The French Antilles and their status as Overseas Departments | p. 444 |
The Break-up of the British West Indies Federation | p. 455 |
From Carifta to Caricom: Deepening Caribbean Integration | p. 476 |
American Colonial Integration of Puerto Rico | p. 488 |
Independence, Nationhood and Identity | |
Divided to the Vein: The Problem of Race, Colour and Class Conflict in Haitian Nation-Building, 1804-1820 | p. 494 |
The Political Ideology of Jose Marti | p. 504 |
The Challenge of Independence in the British Caribbean | p. 511 |
Race, Identity and Independence in Jamaica | p. 519 |
Independence and the Social Crisis of Nationalism in Barbados | p. 528 |
Protest, Socialism and Revolution | |
Cuba, the Making of the 1959 Revolution | p. 542 |
The Black Power February Revolution in Trinidad | p. 548 |
Grenada: A Revolution Aborted | p. 557 |
Pain and Protest: The 1984 Anti-I.M.F. Revolt in the Dominican Republic | p. 566 |
Select Bibliography | p. 575 |
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