Small Islands, Large Questions: Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean

by Karen Fog Olwig (Editor)

Overview

This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714642253
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/1995
Series:	Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Slavery and Abolition- "Small Islands is, taken altogether, a valuable contribution and an attractively produced volume."



Imperial and Commonwealth History-"This book is a valuable contribution to Caribbean historiography."



New West Indian Guide- " This exciting volume fills gaps large and small and points to directions for future research