War, cooperation, and conflict : the European possessions in the Caribbean, 1939-1945
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War, cooperation, and conflict : the European possessions in the Caribbean, 1939-1945
（Contributions in comparative colonial studies, no. 23）
Greenwood Press, 1988
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Bibliography: p. [305]-327
Includes index
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This carefully researched study is the first to chronicle the history of Allied involvement in the defense of British, French, and Dutch possessions in the Caribbean. The study is extremely well researched and well written. . . . The definitive work in this particular area of historical research, based on all available sources in English, French, and Dutch, published and unpublished. Choice
Although few military campaigns were fought in the Caribbean, the region had strategic importance throughout World War II for the United States and its allies. This carefully researched study is the first to chronicle the history of Allied involvement in the defense of British, French, and Dutch possessions in the Caribbean. The first chapter examines the events and diplomacy that led in 1939 to Britain's granting the United States permission to base military facilities in Bermuda, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and to the creation of the Caribbean Sea Frontier. Later chapters detail the troubled course of British-American cooperation as U.S. military commitments--and regional dominance--increased. Also described is the role of the Netherlands, with Britain and the United States, in the defense of the oil and bauxite reserves in the Dutch Caribbean territories, and the friction between Britain and the United States over French Caribbean possessions. The final chapters analyze strategic shifts occuring as a result of the war and influencing postwar settlements negotiated for the region.
Table of Contents
Code Names for Military Operations and Defense Systems The Framework of Defense of the European Caribbean: 1938-1939 The War in the Circum-Caribbean Theatre: September 1939 to April 1940 The Defeat of the Netherlands and Caribbean Repercussions The Inter-American Conference at Havana, Cuba The Anglo-American Destroyers-Bases Agreement The Fall of France and French Caribbean Repercussions ABC-1 and the Atlantic-Caribbean Sea Frontier The Conclusion of the Leased Bases Agreement Establishing the Caribbean/Western Atlantic Bases The Entry of United States Forces into Surinam The United States and the Defense of Aruba and Curacao The Battle of the Caribbean: February 1942 to August 1943 The French Caribbean in the War: November 1940 to November 1942 The Ralliement of the French Caribbean to the Allied Nations Bibliography Index
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