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How Britain underdeveloped the Caribbean : a reparation response to Europe's legacy of plunder and poverty / Hilary McD. Beckles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckles, Hilary, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean Area--Economic conditions.
- Caribbean Area.
- Great Britain--Foreign economic relations--Caribbean Area.
- Great Britain.
- Caribbean Area--Foreign economic relations--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Caribbean Area--Colonies.
- British colonies.
- Economic history.
- International economic relations.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 British Emancipation as Wealth Extraction
- Introduction: Persistent Poverty: The British Legacy of Plunder
- 1. Roots of Poverty: Emancipation Business Model
- 2. "The Nigger Question": Racial Terrorism
- 3. Black Bloodbaths: Dying for Democracy
- pt. 2 British Fascism against Caribbean Freedom
- 4. Freezing Freedom: Blocking Black Progress
- 5. Plantations Are Forever
- 6. Garvey's Grassroots Guerrillas
- 7. Ending Empire: The 1930s Revolution
- 8. Arthur Lewis: Reparations for Economic Development
- pt. 3 Crushing Caribbean Aspirations
- 9. Federation without Funding: Empire Strikes Back
- 10. Punish West Indians, Promote East Indians: The Colombo Plan
- 11. Independence: Britain Exits on the Cheap
- 12. West Indian Nation-Building, or Cleaning up the Colonial Mess.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789766408695
- 9766408696
- OCLC:
- 1287993344
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