British West Indies

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Salt production on St. Kitts (right), in the background the island of Nevis

Satellite image of Bermuda

British West Indies , also known as Anglophone Caribbean or Commonwealth Caribbean, refers to the West Indies colonizedby Great Britain .

history

On January 3, 1958, all areas except for the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas united to form the West Indian Federation . However, this federation only lasted until May 31, 1962. Many of the islands are now independent members of the Commonwealth , with some remaining British.

The former British territories of the British West Indies were:

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Dominica
• Grenada
• Jamaica
• St. Kitts and Nevis (formerly part of St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla )
• St. Lucia
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines
• Trinidad and Tobago

Islands that remained British overseas territories (some split off from former territory):

• Anguilla (formerly part of St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla )
• Bermuda
• British Virgin Islands
• Cayman Islands (formerly part of Jamaica)
• Montserrat
• Turks and Caicos Islands (formerly part of Jamaica)

The anglophone countries of Central and South America have historically been viewed as part of the British West Indies :

• Belize (formerly British Honduras )
• Guyana (formerly British Guyana )

Cricket

In the sport of cricket , most of the above states and territories appear together as the West Indies cricket team and are one of the ten "national teams" that play test cricket matches . The cricket championships can often be compared with the famous FIFA soccer world championships. In the West Indies, the cricket championship has roughly the same significance as football has had in Germany since World War II .

literature

• George Cumper (ed.): The economy of the West Indies. Institute of Social and Economic Research, University College of the West Indies , Kingston 1960.
• Bryan Edwards: The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. Humphreys, Philadelphia.

• Volume 1. 1805 ( PDF; 16.4 MB )
• Volume 2. 1806 ( PDF; 15.1 MB )
• Volume 3. 1806 ( PDF; 12.2 MB )
• Volume 4. 1806 ( PDF; 17.6 MB )

• René Frank : The Anchor Coinage. The silver “anchor coins” from 1820–1822 in the West Indies. Planned single money for all British colonies . Grin, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-656-41773-6 .
• John Horace Parry, Philip Manderson Sherlock: A short History of the West Indies . Macmillan, London, 2nd ed. 1963.
• Frederick G. Spurdle: Early West Indian Government. Showing the Progress of Government in Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands, 1600–1783. Whitcombe and Tombs, Palmerston North 1963 ( PDF; 24.9 MB )

Footnotes

1. ↑ John Mordecai: Federation of the West Indies . Northwestern University Press, Evanston 1968, p. 374.