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" Caliban and the Yankees : "
Harvey R. Neptune.
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BL
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840483
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Neptune, Harvey R.,1970-
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Caliban and the Yankees : : Trinidad and the United States occupation /\ Harvey R. Neptune.
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) :: illustrations
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0807868116
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: 1469604736
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: 9780807868119
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: 9781469604732
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0807830801
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0807857882
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9780807830802
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9780807857885
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-268) and index.
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| Contents
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The turbulent thirties: shaking empire, making nation -- The American preoccupation: assessing the United States before the war -- Laboring over the Yankee dollar: work in occupied Trinidad -- From barefooted men to saga boys: gender, class, and clothes in occupied Trinidad -- Yankees in the land of the calypso: promoting and patronizing Trinidadian nationality -- Love American style: race, gender, and sexuality in occupied Trinidad -- Coda. Re-membering Caliban and the Yankees: the politics of history.
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In a compelling story of the installation and operation of U.S. bases in the Caribbean colony of Trinidad during World War II, Harvey Neptune examines how the people of this British island contended with the colossal force of American empire-building at a critical time in the island's history. The U.S. military occupation between 1941 and 1947 came at the same time that Trinidadian nationalist politics sought to project an image of a distinct, independent, and particularly un-British cultural landscape. The American intervention, Neptune shows, contributed to a tempestuous scen.
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Nationalism-- Trinidad and Tobago-- History-- 20th century.
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Civilization-- American influences.
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HISTORY-- Caribbean West Indies-- General.
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Nationalism.
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Trinidad and Tobago, Civilization, American influences.
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Trinidad and Tobago, History, 20th century.
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Trinidad and Tobago.
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972.983/03
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F2121.N47 2007eb
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