Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean Barbados, 1937-66.

Includes bibliographies and index.

9780719078767; 9780719078767; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; GENERAL EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 Introduction; 2 The 'romance' of foreign:distance, perspective and an 'inclusive nationhood'; 3 The exigencies of 'home': Barbadian poverty and British nation-building; 4 Gender and the moral economy; 5 Race, nation and the politics of memory; 6 'A common language of the spirit': cultural awakenings and national belongings; 7 From diffidence to desperation:the British, the Americans, the War and the move to Federation; 8 Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

This original and exciting book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies. It argues that nation building was a more complex and messy affair, involving women and men in a range of social and cultural activities, in a variety of migratory settings, within a unique geo-political context. Taking as a case study Barbados which, in the 1930s, was the most economically impoverished, racially divided, socially disadvantaged and politically conservative of the British West Indian colonies, *Empire and nation-building* tells the messy, multiple stories of how a colony progre.

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