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Tables of Contents for Islanders in the Stream
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps, Figures, and Illustrations
vii
List of Tables
xi
Preface
xiii
PART ONE From Slavery to Unfreedom, 1834--1900
Transition Not Transformation: Apprentices, Liberated Africans, and the Reconstructed Oligarchy, 1834--1860
3
29
Hegemonic Imperatives: The Economy, Land Tenure, Demography, and Settlement Patterns, 1838--1900
32
42
Capital of a Backwater Colony: Nassau and Its Society, 1838--1900
74
27
Over the Hill and Far Away: The Life and Culture of Bahamian Blacks After Slavery
101
30
The Margins of a Marginal Colony: The Bahamian Out Islands, 1838--1900
131
42
PART TWO On the Margins of a Modernizing World, 1900--1973
Structures: Demography and Social and Material Conditions, 1900--1973
173
35
New Century, Minimal Changes, 1900--1920
208
29
Limited Benefits: The 1920s and 1930s
237
38
World War II and Its Aftermath, 1939--1962
275
41
Free at Last? A Decade of Radical Changes, 1963--1973
316
49
PART THREE On the Eve of the Twenty-First Century: The Present and Future of the Bahamian Past, 1973--1999
A Quarter-Century of Independence: Events, Changes, and Their Social Effects, 1973--1999
365
25
The Conflict of Change and Tradition: Demography, Economy, Material Life, and Morality, 1973--1999
390
45
The Bahamian Self and Others: Achievements, History, and Mythology in the Creation of a National Identity
435
58
Notes
493
54
Index
547