History Matters : Reassembling the Fragments of a Contested Past - in Honour of Bridget Brereton

Cateau, Heather (EDT)/ Pemberton, Rita (EDT)/ Noel, Ronald (EDT)

University of the West Indies Press（2025/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 506 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789766409869

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The most consequential Caribbean historian of her generation, Bridget Brereton has produced a string of innovative and path-breaking studies that have had a profound influence on the ways we have come to understand many of the major events in the area's history. This Work tips its hat to her contributions, as well as suggests ways to expand on the research agenda she has set.

Taking its cue from Brereton, the essays are generally reader friendly in their exploration of the economic, social, economic, political and cultural history of the area. Brereton's work is always "balanced." So too are the contributions to this anthology. Complex societies, Brereton insists, demand complex histories. These essays do exactly that. Like her work, this collection also breaks through old historiographical boundaries. To its credit, the geographical and thematic coverage is comprehensive although, not surprisingly, Trinidad and Tobago attracts a plurality of interest. Its range and mix make this work one of a kind. There are other anthologies that cover aspects of the area's history, but nothing as comprehensive in its historical and thematic reach. It brings to mind Gordon Lewis's, The Growth of the Modern West Indies (1968) which for years was basic fare of graduate seminars. Lewis identified what he called Caribbean "characteristics." It was a house divided against itself in which parochial governing elites butted heads against outside liberal influences before and after emancipation, a place where status was symbolized by skin colour and an area, which with the collapse of King Sugar and emancipation, became a back water until World War II. This work expands on many of the same themes reaching beyond Lewis to cover all language areas.

Contents

List of Tables Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

HEATHER CATEAU

  Part 1: The Colonial Caribbean in Transition

  1 'Little England' vs 'Great Britain': Barbados Slavers in the Emancipation Debate

HILARY MCD. BECKLES

  2 No 'Gentle Glide' From Enslavement to Emancipation: The Post-Emancipation Labour Struggles in Tobago, 1838-1919

RITA PEMBERTON

  3 The Impact of Christianity on Naming Practices in Post-Emancipation Barbados

PEDRO L.V. WELCH

  Part 2: Law, Justice and Empire

  4 From Unicameralism to Bicameralism: Trinbago Constitutional Advances (1831-1962)

BRINSLEY SAMAROO

  5 "The Thorough Knowledge of the Island and All its Departments and Instruction in Political Science": Representing the Patria in Puerto Rico's First Elections Under Spain's 1812 Constitution

JUAN GONZÁLEZ MENDOZA

  6 The Crown Is Not Welcomed: Government and Politics in British Guiana, 1953-1957

JAMES ROSE

  7 Eric Williams and C.L.R. James: Intellectual Symbiosis and Political Counterpoint

HUMBERTO GARCÍA-MUÑIZ

  Part 3: Gendered Testimonies

  8 Bridget Brereton's Gendered Historiography of the Caribbean

GELIEN MATTHEWS

  9 Egodocuments by Women as Sources for Caribbean History: Three Cases from Late Colonial Suriname

ROSEMARIJN HOEFTE

  10 Imperial First Lady of Trinidad, Lady Rachel Hamilton-Gordon 1865-1870

DANE MORTON-GITTENS

  11 Slavery, Gender and the Historiography of the French Antilles, 1635-1848

BERNARD MOITT

  Part 4: Engendering History: Social and Political Life in the Caribbean

  12 Gender and Protest at Morant Bay and in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean

GAD HEUMAN

  13 Inclusion/Exclusion: Women, Citizenship and Political Franchise in Early Twentieth-Century Trinidad and Tobago

RHODA REDDOCK

  14 Gender and Nation-Building in Barbados

MARY CHAMBERLAIN

  15 Ascent to Leadership: Women and the National Union of Public Workers of Barbados, 1975-1995

RICHARD A. GOODRIDGE

  Part 5: Race Relations in the Caribbean: Contested Narratives

  16 "Passing for White" in Bahamian Society During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

GAIL SAUNDERS

  17 It Featured a Gymkhana? Conflicting Identities in the Early Years of the Modern Crop Over Festival

MARCIA BURROWES

  18 Contesting Narratives of Trinidad and Tobago's History: The Contribution of Bridget Brereton and an Exploration of the Syrian/Lebanese Narrative

FIONA ANN RAJKUMAR

  Part 6: History Matters: The Historian and Her Craft

  19 Bridget Brereton and the Narratives of Modern Trinidad: An Assessment of Three Volumes

MICHAEL TOUSSAINT

  20 Called to Action: Caribbean Historians and the Preservation of Primary Sources for the History of the Region

JOHN A. AARONS

  Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index