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The problem of freedom: race, labor, and politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938

Thomas C. Holt c1992 © The Johns Hopkins University Press
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  • 9780801842160 (hardcover)
  • 9780801842917 (paper)
Subject
  • European: 1800-present
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  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
  • Tables, Figures, and Plates (page xiii)
  • Preface (page xvii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxvii)
  • Abbreviations (page xxxi)
  • Prologue (page 3)
  • Part One The Mighty Experiment
  • 1 The Meaning of Freedom (page 13)
  • 2 An Apprenticeship for Ex-Slaves (page 55)
  • 3 An Apprenticeship for Former Masters (page 81)
  • Part Two The Free Labor Economy
  • 4 The Planters: Managing a Free Labor Economy (page 115)
  • 5 Peasants and Workers: Building a Free Society (page 143)
  • Part Three The Political Economy of Freedom
  • 6 Liberal Democratic Society in Theory and Practice (page 179)
  • 7 Politics and Power in a "Plural Society" (page 215)
  • 8 "A War of the Races" (page 263)
  • Part Four The Road from Morant Bay
  • 9 Political Economy and Race: Peasants in the Age of Empire (page 313)
  • 10 The Making of the Jamaican Working Class (page 345)
  • Epilogue "Better Must Come": The Problem of Freedom in the Twentieth Century (page 381)
  • Appendix 1 Sources for and Analysis of Data on Landholding and Migration (page 403 )
  • Appendix 2 Sources for and Analysis of Data on the Jamaica Assembly (page 407 )
  • Notes (page 413 )
  • Works Cited (page 479 )
  • Index (page 479 )
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LARR 29.3 (1994): 202-219 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0023-8791%281994%2929%3A3%3C202%3ACCRFCA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
JAH 80.1 (Jun. 1993): 266-267 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199306%2980%3A1%3C266%3ATPOFRL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
AHR 98.2 (Apr. 1993): 470-472 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199304%2998%3A2%3C470%3ATPOFRL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
JEH 53.1 (Mar. 1993): 169-170 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28199303%2953%3A1%3C169%3ATPOFRL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E
HAHR 73.2 (May 1993): 347-349 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2168%28199305%2973%3A2%3C347%3ATPOFRL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
ENHR 110.436 (Apr. 1995): 516-517 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28199504%29110%3A436%3C516%3ATPOFRL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
JIH 24.2 (Autumn 1993): 386-387 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28199323%2924%3A2%3C386%3ATPOFRL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
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