Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean

<p>This original and exciting book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies. <br><br>It argues that nation building was a more complex and messy affair involving women and men in a range of social and cultural activities in a variety of migratory settings within a unique geo-political context. Taking as a case study Barbados which in the 1930s was the most economically impoverished racially divided socially disadvantaged and politically conservative of the British West Indian colonies Empire and nation-building tells the messy multiple stories of how a colony progressed to a nation.<br><br>It is the first book to tell all sides of the independence story and will be of interest to specialists and non-specialists interested in the history of Empire the Caribbean of de-colonisation and nation building.</p>