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U.S. Intervention in British Guiana

Author : Stephen G. Rabe
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876968
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Intervention in British Guiana written by Stephen G. Rabe and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism. When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in the 1960s, U.S. officials in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations feared it would become a communist nation under the leadership of Cheddi Jagan, a Marxist who was very popular among the South Asian (mostly Indian) majority. Although to this day the CIA refuses to confirm or deny involvement, Rabe presents evidence that CIA funding, through a program run by the AFL-CIO, helped foment the labor unrest, race riots, and general chaos that led to Jagan's replacement in 1964. The political leader preferred by the United States, Forbes Burnham, went on to lead a twenty-year dictatorship in which he persecuted the majority Indian population. Considering race, gender, religion, and ethnicity along with traditional approaches to diplomatic history, Rabe's analysis of this Cold War tragedy serves as a needed corrective to interpretations that depict the Cold War as an unsullied U.S. triumph.

The Development of Land Law in British Guyana

Author : Fenton H. Ramsahoye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780379002805
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Development of Land Law in British Guyana written by Fenton H. Ramsahoye and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power

Author : Colin A. Palmer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807899615
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power written by Colin A. Palmer and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, here tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. At the center of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony's first premier following the institution of universal adult suffrage in 1953. Informed by the first use of many British, U.S., and Guyanese archival sources, Palmer's work details Jagan's rise and fall, from his initial electoral victory in the spring of 1953 to the aftermath of the British-orchestrated coup d'etat that led to the suspension of the constitution and the removal of Jagan's independence-minded administration. Jagan's political odyssey continued--he was reelected to the premiership in 1957--but in 1964 he fell out of power again under pressure from Guianese, British, and U.S. officials suspicious of Marxist influences on the People's Progressive Party, founded in 1950 by Jagan and his activist wife, Janet Rosenberg. But Jagan's political life was not over--after decades in the opposition, he became Guyana's president in 1992. Subtly analyzing the actual role of Marxism in Caribbean anticolonial struggles and bringing the larger story of Caribbean colonialism into view, Palmer examines the often malevolent roles played by leaders at home and abroad and shows how violence, police corruption, political chicanery, racial politics, and poor leadership delayed Guyana's independence until 1966, scarring the body politic in the process.

Bechu

Author : Clem Seecharan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766400712
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Bechu written by Clem Seecharan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clem Seecharan has written a useful documentary history of Bechu, the first Indian to testify before the Royal Commission in 1897. Now who was this Bechu? He was, in Seecharan's words, "an indefatigable gadfly," who in letters to the local press revealed the conditions of Indian indentureship: poor wages, sexual exploitation of women by overseers and managers, and the virtual impossibility for Indians to obtain justice because of the collusion between colonial authorities and the planters. This knowledge we owe to economic historian Alan Adamson who "discovered" Bechu in the 1960s. Yet the man himself remained somewhat of a mystery, something Bechu himself seems to have cultivated. Seecharan has now filled a number of lacunae in our understanding with this two-part volume. The first section focuses on Bechu and the British Guianese environment in the late nineteenth century, while the second part includes letters and memoranda by Bechu (and reactions to them by local opponents).

The One-Cent Magenta

Author : James Barron
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616207175
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The One-Cent Magenta written by James Barron and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at the obsessive, secretive, and often bizarre world of high-profile stamp collecting, told through the journey of the world’s most sought-after stamp. When it was issued in 1856, it cost a penny. In 2014, this tiny square of faded red paper sold at Sotheby’s for nearly $9.5 million, the largest amount ever paid for a postage stamp at auction. Through the stories of the eccentric characters who have bought, owned, and sold the one-cent magenta in the years in between, James Barron delivers a fascinating tale of global history and immense wealth, and of the human desire to collect. One-cent magentas were provisional stamps, printed quickly in what was then British Guiana when a shipment of official stamps from London did not arrive. They were intended for periodicals, and most were thrown out with the newspapers. But one stamp survived. The singular one-cent magenta has had only nine owners since a twelve-year-old boy discovered it in 1873 as he sorted through papers in his uncle’s house. He soon sold it for what would be $17 today. (That’s been called the worst stamp deal in history.) Among later owners was a fabulously wealthy Frenchman who hid the stamp from almost everyone (even King George V of England couldn’t get a peek); a businessman who traveled with the stamp in a briefcase he handcuffed to his wrist; and John E. du Pont, an heir to the chemical fortune, who died while serving a thirty-year sentence for the murder of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz. Recommended for fans of Nicholas A. Basbanes, Susan Orlean, and Simon Winchester, The One-Cent Magenta explores the intersection of obsessive pursuits and great affluence and asks why we want most what is most rare.

Coolie Woman

Author : Gaiutra Bahadur
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604338X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Coolie Woman written by Gaiutra Bahadur and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize: “[Bahadur] combines her journalistic eye for detail and story-telling gifts with probing questions . . . a haunting portrait.” —The Independent In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie” —the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Gaiutra Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother’s story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives. Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages—traumatic “middle passages” —only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and, especially, sexual exploitation. As Bahadur explains, however, it is precisely their sexuality that makes coolie women stand out as figures in history. Greatly outnumbered by men, they were able to use sex with their overseers to gain various advantages, an act that often incited fatal retaliations from coolie men and sometimes larger uprisings of laborers against their overlords. Complex and unpredictable, sex was nevertheless a powerful tool. Examining this and many other facets of these remarkable women’s lives, Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora—from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next—that is at once a search for roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.

Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana

Author : Charles Barrington Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana written by Charles Barrington Brown and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Official Gazette of British Guiana

Author : British Guiana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1816 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Official Gazette of British Guiana written by British Guiana and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report on British Guiana

Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report on British Guiana written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Most Dangerous Area in the World

Author : Stephen G. Rabe
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469617366
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Most Dangerous Area in the World written by Stephen G. Rabe and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the formation of the Alliance for Progress, a program dedicated to creating prosperous, socially just, democratic societies throughout Latin America. Over the next few years, the United States spent nearly $20 billion in pursuit of the Alliance's goals, but Latin American economies barely grew, Latin American societies remained inequitable, and sixteen extraconstitutional changes of government rocked the region. In this close, critical analysis, Stephen Rabe explains why Kennedy's grand plan for Latin America proved such a signal policy failure. Drawing on recently declassified materials, Rabe investigates the nature of Kennedy's intense anti-Communist crusade and explores the convictions that drove him to fight the Cold War throughout the Caribbean and Latin America--a region he repeatedly referred to as "the most dangerous area in the world." As Rabe acknowledges, Kennedy remains popular in the United States and Latin America, in part for the noble purposes behind the Alliance for Progress. But an unwavering determination to wage Cold War led Kennedy to compromise, even mutilate, those grand goals.

Hand-book of British Guiana

Author : James Rodway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hand-book of British Guiana written by James Rodway and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism

Author : Brian L. Moore
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773513549
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism written by Brian L. Moore and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the critical years after the abolition of slavery in Guyana (1838-1900), Brian Moore examines the dynamic interplay between diverse cultures and the impact of these complex relationships on the development and structure of a colonial multiracial society.

Sugar Without Slaves

Author : Alan H. Adamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598211378
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Sugar Without Slaves written by Alan H. Adamson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Guide to the Press of Central and South America

Author : Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Press of Central and South America written by Great Britain. War Office. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Question of Labour

Author : K. O. Laurence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Labour written by K. O. Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emancipation finally came in the 1830s, white Caribbean plantation owners first sought to replace slaves with immigrant labour from India. Most of these efforts were unsuccessful, except in Trinidad and Guyana (formerly British Guiana), where an enduring pattern of immigration built up. This text begins with the 1870s, when immigration laws for both countries were substantially revised in response to the success of the indenture drive in Asia, and explores the history of indentured immigration from that period up until 1917.

Capitalism and Slavery

Author : Eric Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469619490
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Slavery written by Eric Williams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.

Stains on My Name, War in My Veins

Author : Brackette F. Williams
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822311195
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Stains on My Name, War in My Veins written by Brackette F. Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burdened with a heritage of both Spanish and British colonization and imperialism, Guyana is today caught between its colonial past, its efforts to achieve the consciousness of nationhood, and the need of its diverse subgroups to maintain their own identity. Stains on My Name, War in My Veins chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of Guyana to form a unified national culture against the pulls of ethnic, religious, and class identities. Drawing on oral histories and a close study of daily life in rural Guyana, Brackette E. Williams examines how and why individuals and groups in their quest for recognition as a “nation” reproduce ethnic chauvinism, racial stereotyping, and religious bigotry. By placing her ethnographic study in a broader historical context, the author develops a theoretical understanding of the relations among various dimensions of personal identity in the process of nation building.