The West Indies, 1959–63

2020 ◽  
pp. 212-239
Author(s):  
Robert L. Tignor
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
Economic Independence ◽  
The West ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The University ◽  
Public Career

This chapter assesses how the major aspects of W. Arthur Lewis's public career came to a close, fittingly, in the West Indies, where he served as head of the University College of the West Indies between 1959 and 1963. Once he left the West Indies, moving on to become a professor of political economy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, he concentrated on teaching and research, forsaking the heavy round of government consultancies and government offices that had been so characteristic of the first three decades of his career. In many respects the four-year stint in the West Indies was emblematic of his entire public career. Like the rest of the developing world, the islands of the British West Indies were in the midst of frantic decolonizing efforts. By the 1950s, preparing for economic decolonization had also become the guiding activity of Lewis's life. What better way, then, to put his academic training and his unique public experience to work than to promote the political and economic independence of the islands where he had grown up.

The Problem of Liberal Empire Reconsidered

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-177
Author(s):  
Adom Getachew
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The Political ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Economic Violence ◽  
Liberal Political Economy ◽  
Liberal Imperialism

This review essay situates Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (2018) in the context of the two-decade-long debate about the emergence of a liberal imperialism during the nineteenth century. Through an examination of the political economy of emancipation in the British West Indies, Taylor recasts the problem of liberal imperialism by decentering its justificatory discourses in the metropole to examine its practical effects in the colonies. In this turn, he provides an important and missing “materialization” of liberal empire that makes the deep connections between free trade and freeing slaves legible. The practical and theoretical coincidence of these nineteenth-century developments as well as Taylor’s reconstruction of a West Indian tradition of political economy provide a new way of conceptualizing colonial economic violence elaborated as the product of a neglectful empire. It is in this tradition of critiquing and resisting a neglectful empire that we find critical and normative resources to think beyond the terms of our own entrapments within the terms of liberal political economy.

Slavery and Christianity in the British West Indies

1950 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Worthington Smith
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
The Caribbean

Slavery in the British Empire was always centered in the British West Indies. To a greater degree than in the Southern Thirteen Colonies, economic life in the West Indies depended upon Negro slavery, and the population of the islands soon became predominantly Negro. With the loss of the Thirteen Colonies after 1775, slavery within the British Empire became almost entirely confined to the Caribbean colonies. Until the emancipation of the slaves in 1833, British eyes were focused upon the West Indies whenever slavery was mentioned.

Family Background and Psychiatric Disorders

1973 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. S. Marriott
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
The West ◽  
Parental Absence ◽  
Psychiatric Units ◽  
The University

The admissions to the Psychiatric Unit of the University Hospital of the West Indies during a 15-month period from September 1966 to January 1968 have been reviewed with special reference to family background. Despite cultural differences the pattern of admissions was very similar to that of psychiatric units in more highly developed countries. The various racial groups in the island were represented and included a high proportion of white alcoholics. Parental absence in childhood was largely related to social class but there was a definite association between parental absence in childhood and psychologically precipitated depression.

The Relationship of Cambridge GCE Results with the Jamaican Graduate Output from UWI

1975 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-118
Author(s):  
Marlene Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The West ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper seeks to investigate possible links between Cambridge examination results in the General Certificate of Education "O" and "A" level examinations over the years, and the annual Jamaican graduate output from the University of the West Indies. Although all faculties are considered, the main interest lies in numbers of graduates from the faculties of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine, linked with passes gained in science subjects at both "O" and "A" level GCE examinations.

The Making of the Free Ports Act

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
P. J. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
British Atlantic ◽  
British North America ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
The North ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
British System

Burke became involved with West Indian issues at the very beginning of his political career. The brief Rockingham administration of 1765–6 was committed to measures to improve flows of trade around the British Atlantic, of which the West Indies was a crucial component. As the prime minister’s secretary, Burke was deeply involved in these measures. The main problem which they sought to remedy was the inability of the British West Indies to produce commodities needed in other parts of the Atlantic in sufficient quantities. These commodities were principally sugar and raw cotton for Britain and molasses for British North America. The remedy chosen was to allow foreign supplies of these commodities to enter the British system through what were called free ports in two British islands—Dominica and Jamaica. Burke was particularly influential in the provisions of the act relating to Dominica, whose ports were intended to draw in produce, especially raw cotton, from French islands that the British had occupied during the war. In return, they would export British manufactures and slaves to foreign colonies. Getting the act through Parliament required the careful balancing of interests, notably those of the North American colonies and of the West Indies. Burke was in the thick of these negotiations, forming many contacts with merchants. The act, by letting in foreign produce to British islands, marked a significant breach in the hitherto sacrosanct doctrine of imperial self-sufficiency.

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