AMBIVALENT ANTI-COLONIALISM by Cary Fraser ( 9780313287954 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

AMBIVALENT ANTI-COLONIALISM
THE UNITED STATES AND THE GENESIS OF WEST INDIAN INDEPENDENCE, 1940-1964

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0313287953

ISBN 13:

9780313287954

Publisher:

ABC-CLIO

Pub. date:

14 March, 1994

Series:

Contributions in Latin American Studies No. 3

Pages:

248

Description:

Provides a reinterpretation of US policy toward the West Indies since 1940, establishing links between Afro-West Indian groups and African Americans who influenced both US and British policy. This text considers this impact of race and the historiography of inter-American relations.

Synopsis:

Until recently, historians have defined the Commonwealth Caribbean territories by their relationship with Britian and have attributed little importance to American relations with these territories. Fraser provides a reinterpretation of U.S. policy toward the West Indies since 1940. He establishes links between Afro-West Indian groups and African Americans who successfully influenced both American and British policy in the West Indies. Thus, he explores a little-understood and little-studied aspect of American policy toward Britain's disengagement from empire after 1945 and the way decolonization in the Caribbean helped to shape the pattern and strategy of the Anglo-American relationship from Roosevelt to Kennedy. The book will force a rethinking of American policy toward the West Indies since 1940, the impact of race on American foreign policy, and the historiography of inter-American relations.

Illustrations:

black & white illustrations

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Imprint:

Greenwood Press

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Non-returnable