The Peculiar Class: The Formation, Collapse, and Re-formation
of the Middle Class in Antigua, West Indies, 1843-1940
[Ph.D. dissertation, 1994, Columbia University. Note that I am putting this up  in pieces, as pdf files. 
The genealogies in Part 2 are not yet included.]

Front matter, Acknowledgments, and Introduction

Part 1: Sugar and Empire
     Prologue:  1895
     Chap. 1: White  Men, Brown Sugar
     Chap. 2: The "Politicking" of Sugar
     Chap. 3: The Wheels of Empire

Part 2: The Class Called Coloured,1834-1900
    Prologue: The Free Colored in Theory
    Chap. 4: Neither Black nor White, Neither Slave nor Free: The Free Colored in Antigua
    Chap. 5: From Free Colored to Middle Class: Moving Out and Moving Up

Part 3: Arrivance
    Prologue: 1940 
    Chap. 6: A Testimony of Triumph: Education and Social Mobility 
    Chap. 7: Walking in a Dead Man's Shoes: Occupation Hierarchies and the Formation of 
         a Middle Class 
    Chap. 8: The People Are Getting Vex: The Beginnings of Labor Unrest and the Growth 
         of a Peasantry 
    Chap. 9: They Couldn't Mash Ants: Middle-Class Politics Between the Wars 
    Chap. 10: Working for the Yankee Dollar: Social Life and the Arrival of the 
         Americans 
    Conclusion: The Chosen Class

Appendices
     Appendix 1: Sugar Production, 1819-1877 
     Appendix 2: Sugar Production, 1881-1939
     Appendix 3: Expenditures/Revenues and Imports/Exports by Year, 1891-1938 
     Appendix 4: Exports and Imports by Area, 1894-1935 
     Appendix 5: Cotton Production, 1903-1939 

Bibliography of Works Cited