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The Bahamas : "land of milk and honey" symbolic acts and social action /
- Title
- The Bahamas : "land of milk and honey" symbolic acts and social action / Scott Sherouse.
- Author
- Sherouse, Scott,
- Publication
- Saarbrucken, Germany : Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009.
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- Description
- vi, 174 p. : map; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This longitudinal study provides a detailed description of the transition in the Bahamas from British colony to independent country. It analyzes the ongoing process of legitimation and delegitimation of Bahamian political parties and of the transfer of authority from the white minority to the black majority. It is a story of social and political struggles that take place within the quarter century following World War II. These struggles are analyzed within a theoretical framework which focuses on the meaning of symbols used to support claims to authority, and/or which function to delegitimize alternative claims. Specifically, this study looks at the delegitimization of the institutions of colonialism and the concurrent profession of symbols to support both independence and a fully enfranchised democracy in the Bahamas"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154).
- Contents
- Introduction -- Methodology and the unit of analysis -- Using Weberian theory to analyze symbolic actions and political change -- Collective events form a cohesive unity : the making of the social structure of the Bahamas -- Beginning of doubt : rising revolutionary attitudes destroy the traditional symbols -- The spread of doubt : analyzing the continuous transformation of social images -- Decay and birth : a new understanding of reality emerges -- Cementing the foundations of a new reality -- Appendix I: Interviewees -- Appendix II: Chronology of events.
- ISBN
- 9783838330273
- 3838330277
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library