Recharting the Caribbean
Subtitle: land, law, and citizenship in the British Virgin Islands
By: Bill Maurer.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Nationalism -- British Virgin Islands.; Emigration and immigration law -- British Virgin Islands.; Real property -- British Virgin Islands.; British Virgin Islands -- Politics and government.; British Virgin Islands -- Ethnic relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of class, race, and party : making differences, 1890-1949; title: The muting of distinction and the making of the "BVIslander", 1950-1990; title: Stereotypes and the immigrant problem; title: Race, place, and citizenship; title: Immigrants between legislated and chosen identities; title: Making family, making genealogy : one hundred years of family land; title: The Cadastral survey : a modern reordering of the territory; title: Making history for the nation.