Caribbean Military Encounters
. Ed(S): Puri, Shalini; Putnam, Lara
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Description for Caribbean Military Encounters
Hardback. Editor(s): Puri, Shalini; Putnam, Lara. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 245 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JMC; DSBH5; HBJK; HBW; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present. It offers an alternative to policy and security studies by drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, history, anthropology, ethnography, music, and visual art. Rather than opposing or defending militarization per se, this book focuses attention on how Caribbean people negotiate militarization in their everyday lives. The volume explores topics such as the US occupation of Haiti; British West Indians in World War I; the British naval invasion of Anguilla; military bases including Chaguaramas, Vieques and Guantánamo; the ... Read more
This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present. It offers an alternative to policy and security studies by drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, history, anthropology, ethnography, music, and visual art. Rather than opposing or defending militarization per se, this book focuses attention on how Caribbean people negotiate militarization in their everyday lives. The volume explores topics such as the US occupation of Haiti; British West Indians in World War I; the British naval invasion of Anguilla; military bases including Chaguaramas, Vieques and Guantánamo; the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
Series
New Caribbean Studies
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137590589
SKU
V9781137590589
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Ref
99-15
About . Ed(S): Puri, Shalini; Putnam, Lara
Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is the author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and the award-winning The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity. She has edited the volumes The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics, Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean, and ... Read more
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