Conceiving of the Caribbean post/neo-Colony
A postage stamp (printed in Trinidad and Tobago) dedicated to the West Indian Federation, showing Queen Elizabeth overlooking the Antilles, circa 1958
A significant body of materials within the collections focuses on the the post- or neo-colonial Caribbean. Featured here are numerous sources that focus on nation building’, political organisation, development, and their discontents - all in the wake of formal state independence. Thematic strengths include: regional integration, political parties and pressure groups, post-independence government administration and policy reports. Notable too is the extensive collection of speeches by and works on a number of Anglophone and non-Anglophone post/neo-colonial leaders.
Key catalogue subject themes:
Caribbean Area Democracy ; Caribbean Area Politics And Government ; Caribbean Area Postcolonialism
The West Indies Federation
The West Indian Federation was a short-lived union of ex- British West Indian states that existed from January 1958 until it was disbanded in May 1962.
The West Indies Federation
- A series of conversations documenting the potentiality and decline of the West Indian federation – including private letters to N Manley, Eric Williams, Kwame Nkrumah, Grantley Adams and others. http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/ICS40.pdf
- West Indies Federation subject search [ 19 Items ] http://bit.ly/2vBquwL
- Progress toward a British West Indian federation / Waldemar B. Campbell. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2229887~S24
- The West Indies Federation : perspectives on a new nation / edited by David Lowenthal. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1159942~S24
- The associated states and independence / George C. Abbott. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2514052~S24
- Central banking arrangements for the West Indies Federation. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2228516~S24
- Why federations fail : an inquiry into the requisites for successful federalism / [by] Thomas M. Franck [and others] Edited by Thomas M. Franck. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2254755~S24
- Williams, Rosalie (1970) Caribbean economic integration: short reading list. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2418178~S24
- [SH only UK copy] Pamel Beschoff. 1986 Foreign policy co-operation and regional integration in the Caribbean / Caribbean Societies: postgraduate seminar paper http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2978641~S24
Political Parties, Pressure Groups and Activists
he Senate house libraries Political Pamphlets archive holds a host of 20th Century political materials from across the Caribbean including manifestos, labour union pamphlets, political prisoner campaigning and copies of speeches. Below is an overview of these items - please consult the archive website for more info. http://polarch.sas.ac.uk/
Political Parties, Pressure Groups and Activists
- Political Parties West Indies Federation Congresses [7 items] http://bit.ly/2tv00M8
- Political Parties Antigua And Barbuda Platforms [3 items] http://bit.ly/2eIftFU
- Political Parties Antigua And Barbuda Platforms – manifestos, pamphlets and policies [14 Entries] http://bit.ly/2tuxZ7v
- Political Parties Bahamas Platforms – manifestos, pamphlets and bulletins [8 items] http://bit.ly/2uQbMog
- Barbados Political Parties Platforms [47 entries] http://bit.ly/2uRohiR
- Political Parties Belize Platforms - manifestos, pamphlets, speeches [10 entries] http://bit.ly/2tUjHfH
- Political Parties Bermuda Platforms [14 items] http://bit.ly/2uRn0IM
- Political Parties British Virgin Islands Platforms – pamphlets [11 items] http://bit.ly/2uq0DJx
- Cuba Politics And Government [25 items] http://bit.ly/2vCgrYy
- Political Parties Dominica [7 items] http://bit.ly/2v0lS6g
- Political Parties Dominican Republic Platforms [4 items] http://bit.ly/2upOEM4
- Political Parties Grenada Platforms – memoranda, manifestos [19 items] http://bit.ly/2vCgLqe
- Political Parties Guyana Platforms – congress addresses, pamphlets, manifestoes, press releases from various parties, unions and movements [422 items] http://bit.ly/2uQecTG
- Haiti Politics and Government [16 items] http://bit.ly/2vBGTkZ
- Political Parties Jamaica Platforms – manifestos, pamphlet, broadcasts, policies of parties, labour unions and other movements [112 items] http://bit.ly/2v2SOez
- Political Parties Montserrat Platforms [6 items] http://bit.ly/2vVm2Z8
- Political Parties Saint Lucia Platforms [5 items] http://bit.ly/2eKcAEu
- Political Parties Saint Kitts And Nevis Platforms [10 items] http://bit.ly/2uVdjcn
- Political Parties Saint Vincent And The Grenadines Platforms [15 items] http://bit.ly/2vVE8dI
- Political Parties Trinidad And Tobago Platforms [114 items] http://bit.ly/2utcrLf
Post-Independence Administration
- Guyanese civil servant - the first archivist of the government of Guyana and Permanent Secretary in the Premier Cheddi Jagan’s gov 1962-6. http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/ICS176.pdf
- Includes:
- subject files on the Venezuela / British Guiana (Guyana) border issue, 1962-1964
- notes, speeches, correspondence on the archives and heritage of Guyana, circa 1960-62
- Report of the National Reconciliation Committee, 1965 September;
- report of the conference of Caribbean countries, 1965 July;
- Report of the Commission to Review Wages, Salaries and Conditions of Service in British Guiana, 1961
- Fidel Castro (Cuba) [112 items] http://bit.ly/2vBJ0Fq
- Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic) [ 7 items ] http://bit.ly/2tDAPuO
- Eric Williams (Trinidad) [13 items] http://bit.ly/2v0hc0l
- Michael Manley (Jamaica) [ 11 items ] http://bit.ly/2tDzqVg
- Norman Manley (Jamaica) [ 11 items ] http://bit.ly/2uQExBa
- Bustamante (Jamaica) [ 5 items ] http://bit.ly/2vBF6w0
- Forbes Burnham (Guyana) [ 6 items] http://bit.ly/2uRcTDP
- Cheddi Jagan (Guyana) [ 4 items ] http://bit.ly/2tEbot7
- François Duvalier (Haiti) [ 12 items ] http://bit.ly/2tTLvAU
- Jean Claude Duvalier (Haiti) [ 4 items ] http://bit.ly/2eIlpPp
- Errol Barrow (Barbados) [2 items] http://bit.ly/2tEisGk
- Eugenia Charles - Eugenia : the Caribbean's iron lady / Janet Higbie. (Dominica) http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b1058211~S24
- Grantley Adams (Barbados) - Grantley Adams and the social revolution : the story of the movement that changed the pattern of West Indian society / F.A. Hoyos. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2591514~S24
- Eric Gairy (Barbados) - The hero and the crowd in a colonial polity / by A.W. Singham. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2397057~S24
- Lynden Oscar Pindling (Bahamas) - Pindling: the life and times of , first Prime Minister of the Bahamas, 1930-2000 / Michael Craton. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2803064~S24
Development and Policy Reports
- Planning Institute Of Jamaica [14 items] - on social and economic development http://bit.ly/2uVluVV
- Statistical Institute Of Jamaica [62 items] http://bit.ly/2v339a9
- Jamaica Ministry Of Finance And Planning [ 13 items ] - state budgets, financial reports, tax policy http://bit.ly/2vF99TV
- Jamaica Economic Policy [ 68 items ] http://bit.ly/2tGbEb7
- Patterns of development and attendant choices and consequences for Jamaica and the Caribbean / G. Arthur Brown. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2198848~S24
- The after-care of discharged prisoners in Jamaica : report of sub-committee appointed by the Howard League of Jamaica / with preface by Sir Cyril G. X. Henriques. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2268418~S24
- The Govenernment of Guyana [ 34 items ] - reports on economic and social conditions, cooperatives, law, education, housing. http://bit.ly/2utclDd
- Guyana Venezuela Border Dispute [ 59 items ] http://bit.ly/2v3ffAg
- Government of Trinidad and Tobago [92 items] - economoic policy,education, development, policing and legal reports http://bit.ly/2tFSQJ9
- Trinidad And Tobago Central Statistical Office [123 items] - agriculture, finance/business, cencus, and education stats for Trinidad and the Eastern Caribbean (Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia, St Vincent) http://bit.ly/2eKlRfS
- Draft development programmes:
- The imperatives of adjustment : draft development plan, 1983-1986 : report of the task force appointed by Cabinet to formulate a multi-sectoral development plan for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2282052~S24