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Look Lai Walton. Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar. Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838–1918. Introd, by Sidney W. Mintz. [Johns Hospkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture.] The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore [etc.] 1993xxviii, 370 pp. III. Maps. $48.00.

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Look Lai Walton. Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar. Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838–1918. Introd, by Sidney W. Mintz. [Johns Hospkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture.] The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore [etc.] 1993xxviii, 370 pp. III. Maps. $48.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2009

Ralph Shlomowitz
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International Review of Social History , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , April 1995 , pp. 133 - 135
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References

1 For a succinct overview of these migration streams, see Emmer, P. C., “Immigration into the Caribbean: The Introduction of Chinese and East Indian Indentured Laborers between 1839 and 1917”, in Emmer, P. C. and Mörner, M. (eds), European Expansion and Migration: Essays on the Intercontinental Migration from Africa, Asia, and Europe (New York and Oxford, 1992), pp. 245–276Google Scholar.

2 Munro, D., “Patterns of Resistance and Accommodation”, in Lai, B. V., Munro, D. and Beechert, E.D. (eds), Plantation Workers: Resistance and Accommodation (Honolulu, 1993), p. 8Google Scholar.

3 On these topics, see Smith, R., “Some Characteristics of Indian Immigrants to British Guiana”, Population Studies, 13 (1959), pp. 34–39CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Lai, B.V., Girmitiyas: The Origins of the Fiji Indians (Canberra, 1983)Google Scholar; Shlomowitz, R. and Brennan, L., “Epidemiology and Indian Labor Migration at Home and Abroad”, Journal of World History, 5 (1994), pp. 47–67Google Scholar (and references cited therein).