Dr. Spencer Mawby of the Department of History has just published his third book Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in the Anglophone Caribbean 1947-1969 to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of independence for Jamaica and Trinidad.
This new publication analyses the conflicts and controversies which accompanied the gradual transfer of power away from British politicians and officials to locally elected representatives in the Caribbean during the middle years of the 20th century, and includes coverage of disputes between the British government and local nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid.
The central argument of the book challenges those accounts which attribute the post-independence problems of the Anglophone Caribbean to the inadequacies of nationalist leadership and provides a new assessment of the failures of British policy. Based on research in British, Caribbean and American archives, Ordering Independence offers the first comprehensive account of the end of empire in Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, St. Kitts, Grenada and British Guiana.
The publisher is Palgrave Macmillan and please see further details about Ordering Independence for your information.
Posted on Wednesday 29th August 2012