The essays in this book examine the social evolution of the
colonial Caribbean in the period between the end of slavery and the
middle of the twentieth century. While political and economic
changes are not ignored, the focus is on social and ethnic groups,
classes, men and women, and their interrelations, and on the
development of cultural and intellectual traditions. Several essays
deal with Trinidad and Guyana, the region's most ethnically diverse
societies, but others take a wider perspective. Most of the
contributors are firmly multi-disciplinary in their approach. Among
its goals, the book tries to show how the class-based, multi-ethnic
and multi-religious societies of the modern Caribbean emerged from
the ruins of the slave system; the evolution of gender relations
and family structure; systems of opposition to colonial rule; and
how a rich culture and a lively intellectual tradition developed
despite the constraints of depressed economies and colonial
politics.
The Colonial Caribbean in Transition is a general study that
seeks to explain broad social and cultural developments in the
region in the long period between the 1830s and the 1940s. It
combines social history with the cultural studies approach,
including literature as a part of culture. These are areas much
less researched than political, colonial/imperial, and economic
developments, which have been the main focus of the literature. The
essays also combine general, wide-ranging analyses with the case
study approach.
The volume is inspired by the life and work of Donald Wood,
Reader Emeritus in History at the University of Sussex, Britain.
Wood's Trinidad in Transition: The Years After Slavery (1968) is
unquestionablya classic of Caribbean historiography and his
approach to social history has served as a model for history
writing on Caribbean society in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. He has been the mentor, guide and friend of countless
men and women engaged in researching the history of the region.
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