TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Gordon K.
AU  - Knight,Franklin W.
TI  - The growth of the modern West Indies
SN  - 9766371717 (pbk.)
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Kingston, Jamaica, Miami
PB  - Ian Randle
KW  - West Indies
KW  - History
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - West Indies, British
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - "Originally published in the USA 1968 by Monthly Review Press."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-528) and index; Introduction -- The West Indian scene -- The Caribbean background -- British colonialism: the social legacy -- British colonialism: the political legacy -- The Incubus of Crown Colony: The Leeward Islands -- The Incubus of Crown Colony: The Windward Islands -- The emergence of national society: Jamaica -- The emergence of national society: Trinidad and Tobago -- The emergence of national society: Barbados -- The emergence of national society: Guyana -- The Latin Enclave: British Honduras -- The Atlantic Perimeter: Bermuda and the Bahamas -- The problem of size: The Lesser group -- The federal venture: The formative years -- The federal venture: the road to failure -- The challenge of independence
N2  - Provides an in-depth analysis of the forces that contributed to the shaping of the West Indian society covering the the crucial inter-war years from the 1920s to the period of the 1960s
ER  -