| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation. By Harvey R. Neptune. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3080-2. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5788-5.)
Even before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt got Winston Churchill to allow U.S. fortifications in the British Caribbean. On Trinidad, an island of half a million souls, the U.S. Navy and Army built two bases, stationed twenty-five thousand troops, and gave jobs to tens of thousands. In this engaging study, Harvey R. Neptune explores the social impact of such sudden militarization.	1
The story of the occupation presents "no clear-cut narratives" but plenty of "quotidian social conflict" (p. 1). It is this story that Neptune unwraps in two main themes. The first is the surprisingly positive—or at least ambivalent— reception given to U.S. forces. To be sure, as in other U.S. base communities, locals were embarrassed by their own poverty and dependency and repulsed by U.S. racism and unruliness. But working-class Trinidadians generally welcomed the Yankee dollar. Americans came with jobs, bought local goods, and spent lavishly on local entertainment (and women). Trinidadians saw in the occupiers bringers not only of work but also of movies, zoot suits, and informality—in short, of modernity.	. . .

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