Revisiting the transatlantic triangle : the constitutional decolonization of the eastern Caribbean / Rafael Cox Alomar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cox Alomar, Rafael, author.

Series:

Forgotten histories of the Caribbean.

Forgotten histories of the Caribbean

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--West Indies, British--History--20th century.

Decolonization.

Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th century.

Great Britain.

West Indies, British--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

West Indies, British.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--West Indies, British.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Kingston, Jamaica ; Miami, Florida : Ian Randle Publishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Revisiting the Transatlantic Triangle is a comprehensive study of the decisive 5-year period between 1962 and 1967 which witnessed the unfolding of an intense decolonization dialogue between Britain and its far-flung Eastern Caribbean possessions at the height of the Cold War. The process of decolonization of the so-called "Little Eight": Antigua-Barbuda, St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, Montserrat, Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent, Grenada and Barbados, is often overlooked in the annals of postcolonial Caribbean history. The missing 'revolutionary' element in this decolonizing narrative downplays the significance and complexity of the transatlantic dialogue leading to Britain's withdrawal from this colonial melting pot; disengagement negotiations that were decisively shaped by the wider geopolitical imperatives of an uneasy Anglo-American relationship. In this work, Raphael Cox Alomar tests the conceptual boundaries of the very meaning of decolonization as a socio-political phenomenon. Decolonization in this area of Britain's colonial world was characterized by the gradual transfer of 'instalments' of sovereignty, rather than by the immediate devolution of full political authority. In the Eastern Caribbean, the decolonization process quickly became a multifaceted triangular dialogue entangling the Little Eight, London and Washington. Revisiting the Transatlantic Triangle is an authoritative and insightful interpretation and presentation of the decolonization process in the Eastern Caribbean.

Contents:

Introduction : Britain's colonial disengagement from the Eastern Caribbean

The federal concept

Slums of empire

The Anglo-American Caribbean Commission

From the Montego Bay Conference to the Jamaican Referendum

The colonial office and the Eastern Caribbean crisis

The little eight scenario

The Marlborough House Conference

The suspension of the Grenada constitution

Dissension within the ranks

Aid within a transatlantic triangle

A federal project in cold storage

Free association Modo Britannico

Barbados going it alone

Conclusion : towards new postcolonial societies?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-315) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789766376994

9766376999