Lambert, David: White Creole Culture, Politics, and Identity during the Age of Abolition.(Book review)

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Lambert, David White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity during the Age of Abolition Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 245 pp., $75.00, ISBN 0-521-84131-3 Publication Date: January 2005

David Lambert, a lecturer in human geography at the University of London, has taken the linguistic turn. White Creole Culture is a study of the development and expression of a white Creole identity on Barbados during the struggles over abolition. Its central argument is that the con...

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