202 p, Contents: The French West Indies à l'heure de l'Europe : an overview /; Richard D.E. Burton,; Fred Reno --; Constitutional and political change in the French Caribbean /; Helen Hintjens --; Politics and society in Martinique /; Fred Reno --; Guadeloupean consensus /; Jean-Paul Eluther --; Society, culture and politics in French Guiana /; Bridget Jones,; Elie Stephenson --; Dialectics of descent and phenotypes in racial classification in Martinique /; Michel Giraud --; The Declaration of the Treaty of Maastricht on the ultra-peripheral regions of the Community : an assessment /; Emmanuel Jos --; The French Antilles and the wider Caribbean /; Maurice Burac --; West Indians in France /; Alain Anselin --; Women from Guadeloupe and Martinique /; Arlette Gautier --; The idea of difference in contemporary French West Indian thought : Négritude, Antillanité, Créolité /; Richard D.E. Burton --; French West Indian writing since 1970 /; Beverley Ormerod