Islanders in the Stream by Michael Craton

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs and original maps, it stands as a model for forthcoming histories of similar small ex-colonial nations in the region. Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People: Volume Two: From the Ending of Slavery to the Twenty-First Century by Michael Craton, Gail Saunders 9780820322841 Paperback Barnes & Noble Home Textbooks Add to Wishlist ISBN-10: 0820322849 ISBN-13: 9780820322841 Pub. Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery Michael Craton and Gail Saunders Islanders. It skillfully interweaves generalizations and regional comparisons with particular examples, drawn from travelers' accounts, autobiographies, private letters, and the imaginative reconstruction of official dispatches and newspaper reports. This work is an eminent product of the New Social History, intended for Bahamians, others interested in the Bahamas, and scholars alike.

Volume Two divides this period into three chronological sections, dealing first with adjustments to emancipation by former masters and former slaves between 18, followed by a study of the slow process of modernization between 19 that combines a systematic study of the stimulus of social change, a candid examination of current problems, and a penetrating but sympathetic analysis of what makes the Bahamas and Bahamians distinctive in the world.

This long-awaited second volume offers a description and interpretation of the social developments of the Bahamas in the years from 1830 to the present. In the first volume Michael Craton and Gail Saunders traced the developments of a unique archipelagic nation from aboriginal times to the period just before emancipation. The present work concludes the important and monumental undertaking of Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People, creating the most thorough and comprehensive history yet written of a Caribbean country and its people.

Islanders in the Stream by Michael Craton