Compelling and emphatic language toned down by academic speak.  A stitched-together structure that is both focused and diffuse.  The folk voices of Philip Nanton’s Frontiers of the Caribbean nevertheless come across, especially the accounts of his fellow Vincentians from interviews—or from personal profiling: “I cannot say that I knew my father well.  Perhaps he did not want to be known.  What I remember of his characteristics could fit on a postage stamp, but there were identifiable tendencies that were almost archetypal.”  The book could have done with more of such illustrative a