Research Catalog

Title

Contesting freedom : control and resistance in the post-emancipation Caribbean / edited by Gad Heuman and David V. Trotman.

Publication

Oxford : Macmillan Caribbean., c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Heuman, Gad.
• Trotman, David V.

Description

xxxi, 239 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Warwick University Caribbean studies

Uniform Title

Warwick University Caribbean studies.

Subject

• Postcolonialism > Caribbean Area
• Caribbean Area > History
• Caribbean Area > Politics and government

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Popular and official justice in post-emancipation Jamaica / Diana Paton -- Race for power, people of colour and the politics of liberation in Barbados, 1816-c.1850 / Melanie Newton -- 'Working cutlass and shovel': labour and redemption at the Ondoerneeming School in British Guiana / Juanita De Barros -- Discipline, reform or punish? Attitudes towards juvenile crimes and misdemeanours in the post-emancipationn Caribbean, 1838-88 / Sheena Boa -- 'You signed my name, but not my feet': paradoxes of peasant resistance and state control in post-revolutionary Haiti / Mimi Sheller -- 'Is this what you call free?': riots and resistance in the Anglophone Caribbean / Gad Heuman -- Capping the volcano: riots and their suppression in post-emancipation Trinidad / David V. Trotman -- Different Modes of resistance by British Indian and Javanese contract labourers in Suriname? / Rosemarijn Hoefte -- Afro-Cuban culture: within or outside of the nation? / Christine Ayorinde -- Reconsidering creolisation and creole societies / O. Nigel Bolland -- 'Married but not parsoned': attitudes to conjugality in Jamaica, 1865-1920 / Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson -- The cloaking of a heritage: the Barbados Landship / Marcia Burrowes.

ISBN

1405062487

OCLC

• 65169134
• SCSB-11424124

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library