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Race and Class in the Colonial Bahamas, 1880-1960 /

Saunders shows that, although the Bahamas had class tensions in common with other British colonial lands, Bahamian racial tensions were not necessarily parallel to those across the West Indies so much as they mirrored those occurring in the U.S., with power and/or money consolidated in the hands of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Saunders, Gail (Autor)
Otros Autores: Brereton, Bridget, 1946- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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