Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)
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| Management number | 231898615 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $12.74 | Model Number | 231898615 | ||
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In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies―with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist" model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting pot" or "pure pluralist" model. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0801877466 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0801877469 |
| Edition | Revised ed. |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Dimensions | 6 x 0.91 x 9 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.34 pounds |
| Print length | 400 pages |
| Publication date | March 4, 2004 |
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