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311 p, Product Description This book examines the role of the Vichy regime in bringing about profound changes in the French colonial empire after World War II. In the war’s aftermath, the French colonial system began to break down. Indochina erupted into war in 1945 and Madagascar in 1947, while Guadeloupe chose an opposite course, becoming territorially part of France in 1946. The book traces the introduction of an integralist ideology of “National Revolution” to the French colonial realm, shedding new light on the nature of the Vichy regime, on the diversity of French colonialism, and on the beginnings of decolonization. Encompassing three very different regions and cultures, the study reveals both a unity in Vichy’s self-reproduction overseas and a diversity of forms which this ideological cloning assumed. World War II is often presented as an agent of change in the French colonial empire only insofar as it engendered a loss of prestige for France as colonizer. The author argues that Marshal Philippe Pétain’s Vichy regime contributed to decolonization in a much more substantial way, by ushering in an ideology based on a new, harsher brand of colonialism that both directly and indirectly fueled indigenous nationalism. The author also rejects the popular notion that Nazi pressure lurked behind the Vichy government’s colonial actions, and that the regime lacked any real agency in colonial affairs. He shows that, far from allowing the Germans to run French colonies from behind the scenes, Vichy leaders vigorously promoted their own undiluted form of ultra-conservative ideology throughout the French empire. They delivered to the colonies an authoritarianism that not only elicited fierce opposition but sowed the seeds of nationalist resurgence among indigenous cultures. Ironically, the regime awoke long-dormant nationalist sentiments by introducing to the empire Pétain’s cherished themes of authenticity, tradition, folklore, and völkism. (Amazon) ;
Plymouth Montserrat W.I. [New York]: JAGPI Productions Caribbean Research Center Medgar Evers College City University of New York
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92 p., A study of liberation issues in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti and the West Indies, concerning emancipation, revolution, nationalism, magical realism, negrismo, identity and the role of academia.(CRS- Publication)
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302 p, "History of UFCO's Atlantic coast operations in Costa Rica from perspective of largely West Indian labor force. Examines formation of enclave economy, including role of West Indian labor, subsistence production, and health problems as occasion of worker-company misunderstandings. Also studies workers' cultural and political lives apart from, and sometimes in conflict with, company, and how West Indians and UFCO figured in Costa Rican nationalist thought and politics"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
McDonald,Roderick A. (Author) and Sheridan,Richard B. (Author)
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Book, Whole
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1996
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Barbados: Press University of the West Indies
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388 p, Contents: Richard B. Sheridan : the making of a Caribbean economic historian / Howard Johnson -- Capture of the blue dove, 1664 : policy, profits and protection in early English Jamaica / Nuala Zahedieh -- Taylor manuscript and seventeenth-century Jamaica / David Buisseret -- English Quaker merchants and war at sea, 1689-1783 / Jacob M. Price -- Edward Trelawny's "Grand Elixir" : metropolitan weakness and constitutional reform in the mid-eighteenth-century British empire / Jack P. Greene -- Botanical and horticultural enterprise in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Douglas Hall -- West India interest and the crisis of American independence / Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy -- United States and the British West Indian trade, 1783-1807 / Selwyn H. H. Carrington -- Property rights in pleasure : the marketing of slave women's sexuality in the West Indies / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Story of two Jamaican slaves : Sarah Affir and Robert McAlpine of Mesopotamia Estate / Richard S. Dunn -- Patterns of exchange within a plantation economy : Jamaica at the time of emancipation / B. W. Higman -- Planter profits and slave rewards : amelioration reconsidered / Mary Turner -- Abolition and emancipation : Williams, Drescher and the continuing debate / Walter Minchinton -- Ambivalencies of independence : the transition out of slavery in the Bahamas, c. 1800-1850 / Michael Craton -- Land and labour problem at the time of the legal emancipation of the British West Indian slaves / Stanley L. Engerman Urban crime and social control in St. Vincent during the apprenticeship / Roderick A. McDonald -- "Repression is not a policy" : Sydney Olivier on the West Indies and Africa / Richard A. Lobdell
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227 p, In Women in Caribbean Politics Cynthia Barrow-Giles and her co-contributors profile 20 of the most influential women in modern Caribbean politics who have struggled and excelled, in spite of the obstacles. Divided into four parts, this volume looks at women who led the struggle for freedom; those who agitated for equal rights and justice in the pre-independence period; postcolonial trailblazers; as well as a group which Cynthia Barrow-Giles refers to as ‘Women CEOs.’ The profiles cover women from 12 territories, with varying political, ethnic and socio-economic issues.
