Name: War, Cooperation, and Conflict: The European Possessions in the Caribbean, 1939-1945 (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies)
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Author: Fitzroy Baptiste

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War, Cooperation, and Conflict: The European Possessions in the Caribbean, 1939-1945 (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Praeger

Author

Fitzroy Baptiste

Year

1988

Language

English

Pages

365

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780313254727

Synopsis "War, Cooperation, and Conflict: The European Possessions in the Caribbean, 1939-1945 (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies) "

This carefully researched study is the first to chronicle the history of Allied involvement in the defense of British, French, and Dutch possessions in the Caribbean. The study is extremely well researched and well written. . . . The definitive work in this particular area of historical research, based on all available sources in English, French, and Dutch, published and unpublished. ChoiceAlthough few military campaigns were fought in the Caribbean, the region had strategic importance throughout World War II for the United States and its allies. This carefully researched study is the first to chronicle the history of Allied involvement in the defense of British, French, and Dutch possessions in the Caribbean. The first chapter examines the events and diplomacy that led in 1939 to Britain's granting the United States permission to base military facilities in Bermuda, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and to the creation of the Caribbean Sea Frontier. Later chapters detail the troubled course of British-American cooperation as U.S. military commitments--and regional dominance--increased. Also described is the role of the Netherlands, with Britain and the United States, in the defense of the oil and bauxite reserves in the Dutch Caribbean territories, and the friction between Britain and the United States over French Caribbean possessions. The final chapters analyze strategic shifts occuring as a result of the war and influencing postwar settlements negotiated for the region.

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