Description
Elsa Goveia is revered among Caribbean Historians both for her leading role in the introduction and teaching of Caribbean History as a specialised area of study and as a pioneer in West Indian Historiography. All leading historians of The University of the West Indies from the late 1950s to the end of the 1960s were influenced and, in some cases, mentored by Goveia. Over the years, both the Mona and Cave Hill campuses of The UWI have hosted annual lectures by leading historians in her memory, an honour not accorded to any other Caribbean historian to date.
This collection, published under the auspices of the Department of History and Philosophy of The UWI Cave Hill Campus, is a selection of lectures delivered in Goveia’s honour at Cave Hill – some by former colleagues like Woodville Marshall and a young Hilary Beckles and by others who all acknowledge her influence on their careers as historians and academics.
About The Author
Henderson Carter is senior lecturer and head of department of History and Philosophy at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. He is the author of several books including Business in Bim: A Business History of Barbados, 1900–2000 (2008); Powering Our Nation’s Progress: The Story of Electricity Service in Barbados, 1911–2011 (2011); and A Man Called ‘Peace’: The Story of Eric Hassell and his Shipping Enterprise (2017). He also serves as Chair of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society’s Publications and Programming Committee.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Henderson Carter
Elsa Vesta Goveia: A Personal Reflection
Woodville Marshall
Making Money in Barbados: Sugar and a Family from Yorkshire1
James Walvin
‘It is the Way We Live’:
The Village in Caribbean History
Woodville K. Marshall
Elsa Goveia and History as Liberation
Verene A. Shepherd
Lest We Forget: Remembering the Slavery Past to Build a Better Future
Alvin O. Thompson
Causes and Consequences of Caribbean Labour Rebellions in the 1930s:
A Comparative View
- Nigel Bolland
Compensation for Barbados Slave Owners
Nicholas Draper
Social Welfare and the Politics of Health after Slavery
Juanita De Barros
The Revolution of General Bussa and the Making of Barbados Today
Hilary McDonald Beckles
The First World War and Its Impact on Caribbean Societies
Alan Cobley
Beyond Tragedy: Revisiting Emancipation in the Grenada Revolution
Brian Meeks
Preference for the Complexion that is Tinged with a Little Bit of the Olive:
Free Coloured Women and Room-to-Manoeuver Options in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Barbados
Pedro L. V. Welch
Fiftieth Anniversary of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Horace G. Campbell
Popular Celebrations of Independence – Freedom, Race, and Nation in Brazil
Wlamyra Albuquerque1
Bibliography
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