Bridget M. Brereton
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BIOGRAPHY
Professor in History, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Author of A History of Modern Trinidad; Law, Justice and Empire: The Colonial Career of John Gorrie, 1829-1892; Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad, 1870-1900; and others.
Primary Contributions (3)
West Indies, crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north. From the peninsula of Florida on the mainland of the United States, the islands stretch…
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Publications (2)
Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad 1870–1900 (June 2002)
In this study of the development of a colonial Caribbean territory in the late nineteenth century the diverse peoples of Trinidad - Europeans, white Creoles of French, Spanish and English descent, Africans, Creole blacks, Venezuelans, Chinese and Indian immigrants - occupy the centre stage. They formed a society deeply divided along lines of race, skin colour, economic position and educational level. Dr Brereton looks at how the white elite, both European and Creole, was able to control the society,...
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Law Justice And Empire: The Colonial Career Of John Gorrie 1829-1892 (The Press UWI biography series) (April 1997)
This work is a biographical study of Sir John Gorrie, a Scottish lawyer born in 1797, who served as a judge and as chief justice in several multi-racial British colonies (Mauritius, Fiji, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago) in the second half of the nineteenth century. Holding radical political and social views, especially a conviction that persons of all ethnic and class backgrounds should enjoy equal justice under the British Crown, he was a controversial jurist who inspired both bitter...
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