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Recharting the Caribbean : land, law, and citizenship in the British Virgin Islands / Bill Maurer.
LIBRA F2129 .M38 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maurer, Bill, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Real property.
- Ethnic relations.
- Nationalism.
- Politics and government.
- British Virgin Islands--Politics and government.
- British Virgin Islands.
- Nationalism--British Virgin Islands.
- Emigration and immigration law--British Virgin Islands.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- British Virgin Islands--Ethnic relations.
- Real property--British Virgin Islands.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Weaves a story of statecraft and law making, of power and the construction of identity.
- Contents:
- The rise of class, race, and party : making differences, 1890-1949
- The muting of distinction and the making of the "BVIslander", 1950-1990
- Stereotypes and the immigrant problem
- Race, place, and citizenship
- Immigrants between legislated and chosen identities
- Making family, making genealogy : one hundred years of family land
- The Cadastral survey : a modern reordering of the territory
- Making history for the nation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472108115
- OCLC:
- 36029709
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