The Making of Modern Belize Grant Paperback Cambridge University Press

Name: The Making of Modern Belize Grant Paperback Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press

The Making of Modern BelizePolitics, Society and British Colonialism in Central America\nAuthor(s): C. H. Grant\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521101417, 978-0521101417\nSynopsis\nBelize (formerly British Honduras) is a residue of the British Empire and the last colony in the Americas. Like most colonies in this age of decolonisation Belize was willing to break the colonial ties and in fact achieved internal self-government in 1964. It is, however, deterred from taking its full independence by Guatemala's century-old claim to its territory, a claim famous in international law. Belize is more than a British enclave in Central America, it is a meeting place, the borderland of two quite different cultural worlds. These are the White - Creole - Carib and the Spanish - Mestizo - Indian complexes which together produce among Belize's 120,000 inhabitants a racial, linguistic and cultural heterogene.