Britain and the United States in the Caribbean: A Comparative Study in Methods of Development

Proudfoot, Mary, Britain and the United States in the Caribbean: A Comparative Study in Methods of Development, New York: Praeger, 1954.

From the EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION:

The seed from which this book grew was planted in my mind many years ago when, in pursuit of knowledge about what is now called 'colonialism', I visited Hawaii and the Samoan islands and breathed an atmosphere in American dependencies very different from that in those belonging to Britain. The seed lay dormant until the second world war when, as a most pleasant and instructive interlude in an official mission to the British West Indies, I visited Puerto Rico. It
seemed to me that the contrasts I then observed superficially were worth serious study and that the Caribbean islands, where Britain and America deal with very similar problems of government and development in close neighbourhood, was the proper place for such a study.

Questia
Reviewed in The American Economic Review © 1955.