From the Preface, by Trevor Munroe:
1918 - 1938, the period examined by Carnegie's book, is of considerable interest to students both of modern Jamaican politics and of the development of our people's struggle against colonialism. It was perhaps the last time that different wings of the local ruling class fought openly among themselves on political and economic questions such as, for example, whether the banana industry should be dominated primarily by national capitalism or American imperialism. It was the period too when the leaders of the emergent black middle class thoroughly wedded themselves to the precepts and practices of British parliamentarism in the Crown Colony Legislature and the Parochial Boards of the day. Most importantly, these were the years that the anti-colonial struggle, gradually at first, then in a revolutionary outburst, changed its character and moved into a new stage. ...
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