TY - BOOK ID - 142823975 TI - Cold War in a Hot Zone : The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies PY - 2008 SN - 1281243035 9786611243036 159213629X PB - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Labor movement - West Indies, British - History. KW - Labor movement. KW - United States - Foreign relations - West Indies, British. KW - West Indies, British - Foreign relations - United States. KW - West Indies, British - History - Autonomy and independence movements. KW - Labor movement KW - History KW - West Indies, British KW - United States KW - Autonomy and independence movements. KW - Foreign relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142823975 AB - Focused on the region as a whole and drawing from archives in Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Guyana, St. Kitts, Antigua, the U.S. and U.K., this book details the region's impact on the U.S. (particularly on Jim Crow), as it charts the British Empire's retreat in the face of a challenge from Washington. ER -