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A particularly striking political change in recent years has been the erosion of the criteria thought essential to self-government. After World War II Britain’s Colonial Office considered it ‘clearly impossible in the modern world for the present separate [West Indian] communities, small and isolated as most of them are, to achieve and maintain full self-government on their own’.1 For this reason many West Indians welcomed the federation established under British aegis in 1958; only such an association, they believed, could win them self-government. Even thirty years ago, few expected Jamaica and Trinidad to gain independence on their own, let alone tiny Grenada.
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For a mature reflection on Bishop’s Grenada see Gordon K. Lewis, Grenada: the Jewel Despoiled (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).
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Clarke, C. (1991). Grenada: Society and Politics in a Small State. In: Clarke, C. (eds) Society and Politics in the Caribbean. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11987-5_6
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