SPENCER MAWBY is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham, UK, who writes and teaches on the end of the British empire. His previous books include Containing Germany (Palgrave, 1999) and British Policy in Aden and the Protectorates (Routledge, 2005).

Introduction The Struggle for Independence 1947-1952 Ordering the Islands 1952-1958 The Triumph of Disorder 1958-1962 Order and Disorder Between Dependence and Independence 1962-1969 Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

Spencer Mawby analyses the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.