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Bonds of empire : West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to decolonization / Anne Spry Rush.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rush, Anne Spry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- West Indians--Social life and customs--20th century.
- West Indians.
- Ethnology--West Indies, British.
- Ethnology.
- National characteristics, British.
- National characteristics, West Indian.
- West Indies, British--Civilization--20th century.
- West Indies, British.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is an examination of how, from 1900 through the 1960s, West Indians employed their British identity both to establish a place for themselves in the British imperial world, and to negotiate the cultural challenges of decolonization as Caribbean peoples.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Fashioning Britishness
- pt. 2. The people's empire
- pt. 3. Continuity within change.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-262) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613352569
- 0-19-161849-7
- 1-283-35256-7
- OCLC:
- 922970613
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