Ambivalent Anti-Colonialism: The United States and the Genesis of West Indian Independence, 1940-1964 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313287954)

Until recently, historians have defined the Commonwealth Caribbean territories by their relationship with Britian and have attributed little importance to American relations with these territories. Fraser provides a reinterpretation of U.S. policy toward the West Indies since 1940. He establishes links between Afro-West Indian groups and African Americans who successfully influenced both American and British policy in the West Indies. Thus, he explores a little-understood and little-studied aspect of American policy toward Britain's disengagement from empire after 1945 and the way decolonization in the Caribbean helped to shape the pattern and strategy of the Anglo-American relationship from Roosevelt to Kennedy. The book will force a rethinking of American policy toward the West Indies since 1940, the impact of race on American foreign policy, and the historiography of inter-American relations.

Author: Cary Fraser
ISBN-10: 0313287953
ISBN-13: 9780313287954
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 03/14/1994
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d