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"Historical research on the Caribbean has tended to concentrate on the slave era. The long post-emancipation period, when local societies adjusted to the social and economic conditions of a free-labour force and the emancipated attempted to create a new life of their own, has not been the subject of such extensive and rigorous examination." "Small Islands, Large Questions seeks to fill this gap in Caribbean research and takes as its focus the English-speaking Leeward Islands, whose small size makes them especially well suited to case studies of the economic, social and cultural processes which link the pre-emancipation and the contemporary Caribbean. Moreover, the regional variation displayed by the individual islands makes them a good starting point for comparative analysis."--BOOK JACKET.