Titlebook: Base Colonies in the Western Hemisphere, 1940–1967; Steven High Book 2009 Steven High 2009 bibliography.politics.tourism

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Building Bases on a Jim Crow Island,allowed wealthy North Americans to escape the noise and bustle of modern life. Even during the depression years, Bermuda attracted over 80,000 tourists per year.. The year-round presence of rich Americans in Tucker’s Town and elsewhere contributed further to the livelihood of many Bermudians.

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Working for Uncle Sam in Newfoundland, Army air base, Harmon Field, on Newfoundland’s west coast at Stephenville. These four sites were joined by the Canadian Air and Navy bases also being built in Newfoundland and Labrador. At the height of the construction boom in 1942, fully 20,000 Newfoundlanders found steady employment on these foreign bases..

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The Racial Politics of Criminal Jurisdiction,mant that all mention of U.S. sovereignty be dropped. After three weeks of often rancorous debate, the negotiation of the Bases Agreement of March 1941 nearly collapsed over jurisdiction and customs duties. It was only Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s personal intervention that saved the day. Yet the resulting compromise satisfied no one..

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From Slavery to Chaguaramas,were so popular and so frequent that they became known collectively as the “University of Woodford Square.” April 22, however, was not a typical day at the people’s university. It was to be the day that Williams proclaimed the independence of the British West Indies.

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Conclusion,, was built upon the stepping stones of fuelling stations and naval bases; in the future the world struggle may be for air bases, stepping stones to new empires.”. Sea power was by no means obsolete, but it had been eclipsed by the power of the skies. The “plane can span narrow seas, halve space and massacre time.”3