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Small Islands, Large Questions

Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean

Edited by Karen Fog Olwig

Published August 1st 1995 by Routledge – 200 pages

Series: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post Slave Societies

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    Description

    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.

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    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

    Name: Small Islands, Large Questions: Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean (Paperback) – Routledge 
    Description: Edited by Karen Fog Olwig. 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...
    Categories: History, Imperial & Colonial History