Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948-

Description

1. 200 p. : maps; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures

Subject

1. Freed persons > West Indies > Leeward Islands
2. Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Leeward Islands (West Indies)
3. Leeward Islands (West Indies) > Social conditions
4. Leeward Islands (West Indies) > Economic conditions

Contents

1. Emancipation and its consequences / Karen Fog Olwig -- Post-emancipation historiography of the Leeward Islands / B.W. Higman -- "They couldn't mash ants" : the decline of the white and non-white elites in Antigua, 1834-1900 / Susan Lowes -- From labour to peasantry in Montserrat after the end of slavery / Riva Berleant-Schiller -- Land, kinship and community in the post-emancipation Caribbean / Jean Besson -- Cultural complexity after freedom : Nevis and beyond / Karen Fog Olwig -- Post-emancipation resistance in the Caribbean / Gad Heuman -- "Our side" : Caribbean immigrant labourers and the transition to free labour in St. Croix, 1849-79 / George F. Tyson -- Island systems and the paradox of freedom : migration in the post-emancipation Leeward Islands / Elizabeth M. Thomas-Hope.

Call number

1. Sc D 95-1636

Note

1. Papers originally presented at a workshop held in Magleås, Denmark, in August 1992.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Small islands, large questions : society, culture, and resistance in the post-Emancipation Caribbean / edited by Karen Fog Olwig.

Imprint

1. London ; Portland, Or. : F. Cass, c1995.

Series

1. Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948-

LCCN

1. 95014437

ISBN

1. 0714645761 (cloth)
2. 0714642258 (paper)

Research call number

1. Sc D 95-1636