Ordering Independence

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. The Struggle for Independence 1947–1952

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4. Ordering the Islands 1952–1958

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5. The Triumph of Disorder 1958–1962

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6. Order and Disorder between Dependence and Independence 1962–1969

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7. Conclusion

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8. Back Matter

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Spencer Mawby analyses the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.

• Caribbean
• Cold War
• Empire
• migration

“Ordering Independence examines the decolonization of the Anglophone Caribbean. … Undergraduate and postgraduate students … will love Mawby’s work. It covers after all the whole region and provides them with a step-by-step overview of the negotiations between nationalist leaders and British policymakers.” (Henrice Altink, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 51 (1), 2016)

• Department of History, University of Nottingham, UK

  Spencer Mawby

SPENCER MAWBY is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham, UK, who writes and teaches on the end of the British empire. His previous books include Containing Germany (Palgrave, 1999) and British Policy in Aden and the Protectorates (Routledge, 2005).

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