This book reveals the potential of geography to engage with citizenship. It provides:

• theoretical signposts in the form of short, digestible explanations for key ideas such as racism, values, identity, community and social exclusion
• a number of inset activities 'for further thinking'
• a critique of the discipline and the pitfalls to avoid in teaching citizenship through geography
• practical teaching suggestions.

All the contributions to this valuable book point to the capacity of geography to engage with citizenship, values, education and...

This is the first title in this new series, which is aimed principally at secondary PGCE and BAEd students and school and HEI-based tutors. Each book provides a digest of the central issues around a particular topic or issues, grounded in or supported by examples of good practice, with suggestions for further reading, study and investigation.

David Lambert explores the political and cultural articulation of white creole identity in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados during the age of abolitionism (c.1780 1833), the period in which the British antislavery movement emerged, first to attack the slave trade and then the institution of chattel slavery itself. Supporters of slavery in Barbados and beyond responded with their own campaigning, resulting in a series of debates and moments of controversy, both localised and transatlantic in significance. They exposed tensions between Britain and its West Indian colonies, and raised...