In this provocative book Neville Hall offers a comprehensive study of slave society in the Danish West Indies. Covering the entire period of slavery in the territory--from 1671 to 1848--Hall focuses on slave rebellion andresistance and discusses the legislative system introduced to control the slave population. He also examines the life of the freedman, the complex relationship between cultural and linguistic development on the islands; and the unusually cosmopolitan character of the slaveowning class.
Edited by Barry Higman, this revealing study of slavery in the Dutch West Indies broadens our understanding of Caribbean colonialism.

Slave Society In The Danish West Indies: St Thomas, St John And St Croix

History

Higman, B.W.

Hall, Neville A.T.

Americas

University Press of the West Indies

"Thoroughly reviews regional integration efforts by Caribbean nations. Analyzes Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) and Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and points out their weaknesses. Argues for the need for a regional ideology, including a pan-national identity, agreed-upon explanations for causes of shared past problems and ways to solve them, and consensus on building successful regional integration"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Ideology and Caribbean Integration (New Generation Series,)

Politics & Social Sciences

Boxill, Ian

Politics & Government

Orchids of Jamaica

Cloudon, A

Gloudon, Ancile

Tobago In Wartime 1793-1815

Laurence, K.O.

"Seeks to determine manner in which colonial elite used culture and consensus of values to maintain their hegemony, and examines responses of the subordinate groups to these initiatives and nature of the resulting cultural fabric. His conclusion - that 19th-century Guyanese society consisted of a number of 'discrete cultural sections which shared very little with one another other than a common commitment to making money in the plantation society' - suggests the presence of acquisitive materialism that now inhibits growth of consensus-building mechanisms at the national level"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Cultural Power Resistance & Pluralism: Colonial Guyana 1838-1900

Moore, Brian L.

First published in 1976 (see HLAS 40:2983), work is a masterful analysis of the dynamics of slave labor in the economic growth of early-19th-century Jamaica. Discusses various characteristics of slave and free-colored population including mortality, birth rates, manumission, distribution, and structure, as well as jobs performed on island as a who

Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1835

Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984 (see HLAS 48:2517b). Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various

Slave Populations of the British Caribbean 1807-1834

This book provides an analysis of the West Indian novel in the context post- structuralism. The author sets up a dialogue between West Indian intellectual practice as exemplified by thinkers such as George Lamming, C. L. R. James, and E. Kamau Brathwaite, and the discussions privileged by Foucault and Derrida as they examine what might be called the will to identity. The work demonstrates that many West Indian novels implicitly prefigured deconstructive practice as elucidated by Jacques Derrida. In addition, it observes that the powerful hegemony of imperialism, as ubiquitous in the Caribbean as the tropical sunshine, needs to be included in any aesthetic equation which focuses on the West Indian novel. As such, Michel Foucault's critique of power and epistemic violence is interwoven with Derrida's analyses of a metaphysics of exclusion. Eschewing a chronological approach, the work concludes with textual analyses which provide the reader with insight into theory as well as practice.

Deconstruction, Imperialism and the West Indian Novel

Literature & Fiction

Griffith, Glyne A.

United States

"Written by two former students of perhaps one of the Caribbean's most famous educational institutions, book elucidates school's evolution and analyzes its contribution to the development of Barbadian society. Although scarcity of adequate documentation results in an uneven treatment of different periods, work examines roles of various headmasters and their administrations in the school's evolution. Additionally, work places Combermere, and the changes it underwent, within the larger framework of societal changes that Barbados experienced. Useful case study"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Combermere School & Barbadian Soc

Sandiford, Keith A. P.

Newton, Earle H.

Reference

Pauline Christie is Tutor and past Senior Lecturer at the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her research interests include Dominican Creole, Jamaican Creole, Caribbean English and language acquisition. Recent publications include her edited volune Caribbean Language Issues Old and New (Kingston, Jamaica: The Press, University of the West Indies, 1996).

Caribbean Language Issues Old & New

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