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- Title: Harvey R. Neptune. 2007. Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation (Resena de Libro)
- Author : Caribbean Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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Harvey R. Neptune. 2007. Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 274 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8078-5788-5. Harvey Neptune's Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation explores the social and cultural effects of the large United States military base established in Trinidad during World War II to forestall German expansion. Creatively researched, daringly interpreted, and beautifully written, Caliban and the Yankees analyzes the relationship between cultural transformation and political nationalism under the U.S. "occupation." Through this analysis, it offers an original, unexpected, and nuanced story of the evolution of a successful decolonization movement in Trinidad after more than four hundred years of European suzerainty (including British control since 1797). The book's focus is the intellectual and popular cultural history of this "occupation" period. Neptune explores topics such as labor, dress, music, and sexual relations, providing rich treatments that will be of great interest to scholars across disciplines and fields. In addition, Caliban and the Yankees makes profound methodological contributions to the study of U.S. foreign policy by foregrounding cultural history and by drawing on innovative sources so as to discern the perspectives of ordinary Trinidadians (as opposed to telling the story from the perspective of the United States and through more traditional political and diplomatic subjects).