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Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean Barbados, 1937-66 /

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Main Author: Chamberlain, Mary, 1947-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester, U.K. ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Subjects:
Decolonization > Barbados.
Nation-building > Barbados.
Women in development > Barbados.
Barbados > Politics and government > 20th century.
Barbados > History > 20th century.
Barbados > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Barbados.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The 'romance' of foreign: distance, perspective and an inclusive nationhood
  • The exigencies of 'home': Barbadian poverty and British nation-building
  • Gender and the moral economy
  • Race, nation and the politics of memory
  • 'A common language of the spirit': cultural awakenings and national belongings
  • From diffidence to desperation: the British, the Americans, the war and the move to Federation
  • Conclusion.

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