Ambivalent anti-colonialism : the United States and the genesis of West Indian independence, 1940-1964
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Ambivalent anti-colonialism : the United States and the genesis of West Indian independence, 1940-1964
（Contributions in Latin American studies, no. 3）
Greenwood Press, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-228) and index
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Description
Until recently, historians have defined the Commonwealth Caribbean territories by their relationship with Britian and have attributed little importance to American relations with these territories. Fraser provides a reinterpretation of U.S. policy toward the West Indies since 1940. He establishes links between Afro-West Indian groups and African Americans who successfully influenced both American and British policy in the West Indies. Thus, he explores a little-understood and little-studied aspect of American policy toward Britain's disengagement from empire after 1945 and the way decolonization in the Caribbean helped to shape the pattern and strategy of the Anglo-American relationship from Roosevelt to Kennedy. The book will force a rethinking of American policy toward the West Indies since 1940, the impact of race on American foreign policy, and the historiography of inter-American relations.
Table of Contents
Colonialism and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Crisis of Colonial Rule in the Caribbean
From the Bases-for-Destroyers Deal to the Caribbean Commission
Imperial Reassertion, American Disengagement, and the Evolving Nationalist Challenge, 1945-52
From British Guiana to Chaguaramas: The American Response to West Indian Nationalism and British Disengagement, 1953-61
American Policy toward British Guiana, 1957-64: Setting the Limits on West Indian Nationalism
Conclusion
Bibliography
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Index
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