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Subject(s)

• Trinidad—History [Browse]

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Bibliography: p. 254-258.

Contents

• The deserted island, 1498-1783
• Enter the Africans and the French, 1783-97
• The British take over, 1797-1812
• The experimental colony, 1812-38
• The ordeal of free labour and the colonial economy, 1838-1900
• The newcomers, 1838-1917
• The development of Creole society, 1838-1938
• Politics in a crown colony, 1838-1914
• Constitutional reform and the labour movements, 1917-36
• The emergence of modern Trinidad, 1936-50
• Oil and the twentieth-century economy, 1900-62
• Free at last? 1950-62.

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ISBN

• 0435981161 ((pbk.))
• 9780435981167 ((pbk.))

LCCN

82159016

OCLC

8669166

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