TY - BOOK AU - Chamberlain,Mary ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937-66 T2 - Studies in imperialism AV - F2041 .C478 2010eb U1 - 972.981 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Manchester, U.K., New York, New York PB - Manchester University Press, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Decolonization KW - Barbados KW - Nation-building KW - Women in development KW - Politics and government KW - 20th century KW - History KW - Foreign relations KW - Great Britain KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-212) and index; Introduction -- The 'romance' of foreign: distance, perspective and an inclusive nationhood -- The exigencies of 'home': Barbadian poverty and British nation-building -- Gender and the moral economy -- Race, nation and the politics of memory -- 'A common language of the spirit': cultural awakenings and national belongings -- From diffidence to desperation: the British, the Americans, the war and the move to Federation -- Conclusion; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10623292 ER -