History of Barbados From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Single Market

Name: History of Barbados From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Single Market
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ISBN: 9780521678490

ISBN-10: 0521678498

ISBN-13: 9780521678490

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Hilary Beckles

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In this second edition of A History of Barbados, Hilary Beckles updates the text to reflect the considerable number of writings recently published on Barbados. He presents new insights and analyses key events in a lucid and provocative style which will appeal to all those who have an interest in the islands past and present. Hilary Beckles examines how the influences of the Amerindians, European colonisation, the sugar industry, the slave trade, emancipation, the civil rights movement, independence in 1966 and nationalism have shaped contemporary Barbados. A History of Barbados speaks to the slavery past as passionately as it does to the considerable success of this small nation finding its…

Book details

List price: $38.75
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




The first Barbadians c.350+c. 1627



English colonialisation 1627+1650



The 'sugar and slavery' model 1644+1692



The Creole slave-based society and economy 1688+1807



Abolition, rebellion and emancipation 1807+1838



Freedom without liberties 1838+1897



Right to full freedom 1843+1876



Planter-merchant consolidation and workers' organisation 1876+1937



From colony to nation state 1937+1966



Current trends: from nation state to Caribbean single market and economy