National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean
by
Kristen Stromberg Childers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 1946, at a time when other French colonies were just beginning to break free of French imperial control, the people of the French Antilles-the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe-voted to join the French nation as departments (Départments d'outre mer, or DOMs). Eschewing independence...