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Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History
Brereton, Bridget Yelvington, Kevin A.
Bridget Brereton, Kevin A. Yelvington
ISBN: 9780813016962
Format: Hardback
Publisher:University Press of Florida
Edition: First
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The essays in this book examine the social evolution of the colonial Caribbean in the period between the end of slavery and the middle of the twentieth century. While political and economic changes are not ignored, the focus is on social and ethnic groups, classes, men and women, and their interrelations, and on the development of cultural and intellectual traditions. Among its goals, the book tries to show how the class…
Edited collection of essays examining the social evolution of the colonial Caribbean, from the end of slavery to mid-20th century. Focuses on social & ethnic groups, class, gender, & development of cultural & intellectual traditions.
| ISBN | 0813016967 | | Pages | 336 | | ISBN13 | 9780813016962
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | University Press of Florida | | Weight (grammes) | 612 | | Imprint | University Press of Florida | | Published in | Florida | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Publication date | 31 Jul 1999 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | 98053065 | | Spine width (mm) | 24 | | DEWEY | 972.904 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Illustrations and Tables | | | | | | Preface: A Tribute to Donald Wood | | | | | | Donald Wood: An Autobiographical Note | | | | | | Contributors | | | | | | Abbreviations | | | | | | Introduction: The Promise of Emancipation by Bridget Brereton and Kevin A. Yelvington | | 1 | | Ch. 1 | | The Colonial State, Religion and the Control of Labour: Jamaica 1760-1834 by Mary Turner | | 26 | | Ch. 2 | | Black Testators: Fragments of the Lives of Free Africans and Free Creole Blacks in Trinidad 1813-1877 by Carl Campbell | | 43 | | Ch. 3 | | The Wage Problem in Trinidad and Tobago 1838-1938 by James Millette | | 55 | | Ch. 4 | | Family Strategies, Gender and the Shift to Wage Labour in the British Caribbean by Bridget Brereton | | 77 | | Ch. 5 | | Leisure and Society in Postemancipation Guyana by Brian L. Moore | | 108 | | Ch. 6 | | Colonial Images of Blacks and Indians in Nineteenth Century Guyana by Robert J. Moore | | 126 | | Ch. 7 | | The Madeiran Portuguese Woman in Guyanese Society 1830-1930 by M. Noel Menezes | | 159 | | Ch. 8 | | Rice, Culture and Government in Trinidad 1897-1939 by Glenroy Taitt | | 174 | | Ch. 9 | | The War in Ethiopia and Trinidad 1935-1936 by Kevin A. Yelvington | | 189 | | Ch. 10 | | Non-Traditional Sources for the Study of the Trinidad Disturbances of the 1930s by Brinsley Samaroo | | 226 | | Ch. 11 | | "We Were Going to Found a Nation ... ": Dramatic Representations of Haitian History by Three Martinican Writers by Bridget Jones | | 247 | | | | Notes | | 261 | | | | Index | | 311 |
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