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- catalog abstract "" ... Offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies -- with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guiana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist" model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting pot" or "pure pluralist" model."--Publisher's description.".
- catalog contributor b4796135.
- catalog coverage "West Indies, British Emigration and immigration History 19th century.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "" ... Offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies -- with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guiana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist" model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting pot" or "pure pluralist" model."--Publisher's description.".
- catalog description "British West Indian society and economy after emancipation -- Push factors and migration trends in India and China -- Formal organization of the British West Indian indenture system -- Life and labor on the plantations: The Chinese -- Life and labor on the plantations: The Indians -- Critics of indenture: alternative voices in Creole society -- Beyond indenture: Chinese mobility and assimilation patterns -- Sojourners to settlers: West Indian East Indians, and East Indian West Indians -- Conclusion: Asian indenture in comparative perspective -- Appendices.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-363) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxviii, 370 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Indentured labor, Caribbean sugar.".
- catalog identifier "0801844657 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "9780801844652 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Indentured labor, Caribbean sugar.".
- catalog isPartOf "Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Indentured labor, Caribbean sugar.".
- catalog spatial "West Indies, British Emigration and immigration History 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "West Indies, British".
- catalog subject "306.3/63 20".
- catalog subject "Chinezen. gtt".
- catalog subject "Contractarbeiders. gtt".
- catalog subject "Foreign workers, Chinese West Indies, British History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Foreign workers, East Indian West Indies, British History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "HD8039.S86 W475 1993".
- catalog subject "Indentured servants West Indies, British History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Personnel Immigrants History".
- catalog subject "Plantages. gtt".
- catalog subject "Sugar workers West Indies, British History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Voorindiërs. gtt".
- catalog subject "West Indies".
- catalog tableOfContents "British West Indian society and economy after emancipation -- Push factors and migration trends in India and China -- Formal organization of the British West Indian indenture system -- Life and labor on the plantations: The Chinese -- Life and labor on the plantations: The Indians -- Critics of indenture: alternative voices in Creole society -- Beyond indenture: Chinese mobility and assimilation patterns -- Sojourners to settlers: West Indian East Indians, and East Indian West Indians -- Conclusion: Asian indenture in comparative perspective -- Appendices.".
- catalog title "Indentured labor, Caribbean sugar : Chinese and Indian migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 / Walton Look Lai ; introd. by Sidney W. Mintz.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".