Dear all,
We would like to invite you to the following UCL Institute of the Americas event:
Title: Depression and Decolonisation: Revisiting the 1930s in the British and French Caribbean
Speaker: Michael Joseph (Oxford University)
Date: Wednesday 20 March 2019, 17.30 -19.30pm
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/depression-and-decolonisation-revisiting-the-1930s-in-the-british-and-french-caribbean-tickets-53050936780
The 1930s were in many senses defined by the Great Depression, a decade of hunger marches, labour unrest, and political agitation across the British and French Caribbean. There remains, however, a striking contrast in the historiography derived, it seems, from the islands' very different political futures. Historians of the British Caribbean, seeking to explain the growth of anticolonial nationalism, treat the 1930s as a turning point; historians of the French Caribbean, by contrast, seeing the interwar period as a time of continuity building up to départementalisation in 1946, give these years rather less focus. With this in mind, the paper compares the two cases. How did the islands react to the global economic crisis, why, and with what significance for their political futures?
Please share widely with those you think might be of interest.
Best wishes,
Daisy Voake
Interim Events and Communications Officer
Room G08, UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN
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