Barbados: British empire in miniature.(Brief Article)

Barbados is like no other West Indian island. Its coral origins give it golden beaches and rolling, easily cultivated landscape, where the sugar wealth of the past was created. It has no towering volcanic peaks, no mouldering ruins, no destruction by French invaders. Instead, continuity, conservation, care, an emphasis on order, education, respectability, of making the most of things.

The line of historical development from the earliest settlement by the English in the seventeenth century is palpable: things really have `broadened down from precedent to precedent'. Their unique ...

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