| A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Single Market Revised Edition Contributor(s): Beckles, Hilary (Author), Beckles, Hilary MCD (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521678498 ISBN-13: 9780521678490 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $36.81 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2007 Annotation: In this second edition, 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 island's past and present. Hilary Beckles examines how the influences of the Amerindians, European colonisation, the sugar industry, the African 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 way in a turbulent, globalised world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General |
| Dewey: 972.981 |
| LCCN: 2007274543 |
| Series: Caribbean |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.06 lbs) 338 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Highly acclaimed when it first appeared in 1990, this general history of Barbados traces the events and ideas that have shaped the collaborative experience of all the islands inhabitants. In this second edition, 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 island's past and present. Using a vigorous approach, Hilary Beckles examines how the influences of the Amerindians, European colonisation, the sugar industry, the African slave trade, emancipation, the civil rights movement, independence in 1966 and nationalism have shaped contemporary Barbados. |