Bonds of Empire: West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to Decolonization
- ISBN-10
- 0199588554
- ISBN-13
- 9780199588558
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 274
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-06-09
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Anne Spry Rush
Description
An examination of how, from 1900 through the 1960s, West Indians employed their British identity both to establish a place for themselves in the British imperial world, and to negotiate the cultural challenges of decolonization as Caribbean peoples.
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