The Making of Modern Belize: Politics, Society and British Colonialism in Central America (Cambridge Commonwealth Series)

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Belize (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 once willing to break the colonial ties and in reality achieved internal self-government in 1964. It is, alternatively, 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 The usa, this can be a meeting place, the borderland of two moderately 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 heterogeneity that may be ordinary either in the Commonwealth Caribbean or in Central The usa. There Belize’s distinctiveness ends. Structurally, it is as economically dependent as its neighbours. Endowed with luxuriant forest resources, it was once from the start a classical example of colonial exploitation, of getting rid of and not giving back in relation to permanent improvement and capital development. It was once only when the forest resources were depleted after the Second World War that its other natural resource, agriculture, received attention.

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