Ambivalent anti-colonialism : the United States and the genesis of West Indian independence, 1940-1964
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Bibliographic Information
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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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-228) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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
Appendices
Index
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