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Finding Aids for Studying the British Caribbean

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HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN. By WILLIAMLUX. (Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1975. Pp. 266. $9.00.)
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF HONDURAS. By MEYERHARVEY K. (Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1976. Pp. 413. $15.00.)
MASS MEDIA IN THE COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN: RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES. By LENTJOHN A. (Philadelphia, Penna.: Temple University School of Communications and Theatre, 1976. $2.50.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Bridget Brereton
Bridget Brereton*
Affiliation:
University of the West Indies, Trinidad
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , 1979 , pp. 252 - 255
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Copyright © 1979 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

1. Considerable work has already been done in identifying archival materials for the study of the Commonwealth Caribbean. The major surveys are: L. J. Ragatz, A Guide for the Study of British Caribbean History, 1763–1834 (Washington, D.C., 1932; reprinted New York: Da Capo Press, 1970); M. Chandler, Guide to Records in Barbados (New York: International Publications Service, 1965); E. C. Baker, Guide to Records in the Leeward Islands and Guide to Records in the Windward Islands (New York: International Publications Service, 1965 and 1968); J. S. Handler, A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627–1834 (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971); K. E. Ingram, Manuscripts Relating to Commonwealth Caribbean Countries in U. S. and Canadian Repositories (London, 1975).

2. A Study on the Historiography of the British West Indies to the End of the 19th Century (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1978).

3. Bibliographia Jamaicensis (Kingston, 1902; reprinted New York: Burt Franklin Pub., 1971); Bibliography of the West Indies (excluding Jamaica) (Kingston, 1909; reprinted New York: Somerset Publications, 1971.)

4. Caribbeana, 1900–1965: A Topical Bibliography (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1968.

5. There is a good compilation for British Honduras (Belize): C. W. Minkel and R. H. Alderman, A Bibliography of British Honduras, 1900–1970 (East Lansing: Michigan State University Latin American Studies Center, Research Report No. 7, 1970).

6. “A Review of Historical Writing on the Commonwealth Caribbean since c. 1940,” Social and Economic Studies 24, no. 3 (Sept. 1975).

7. Excluding Guyana, served by the University of Guyana.

8. Our Ancestral Heritage: A Bibliography of the English Speaking Caribbean (Kingston, vol. 1, 1976; vol. 2 to follow).