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Author : Henry G. Dalton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of British Guiana written by Henry G. Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen G. Rabe
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876968
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
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.
Author : Colin A. Palmer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807899615
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
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.
Author : Joshua R. Hyles
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739187805
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Guiana and the Shadows of Empire written by Joshua R. Hyles and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the three Guianas, now known as Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. Though histories of each of the countries exist, this is the first work in a century to consider the three countries as a group, and thus the first to present the history of all three as a comparative and overarching study. Special emphasis has been given to the story of how each colony was administered by Britain, the Netherlands, and France respectively, and how these differing colonial administrative policies have given rise to three vastly different cultures. Because the geographical area of the Guianas is relatively small, the indigenous population at the time of contact was relatively uniform across the area, and the external pressures on the three colonies over their histories exhibited significant similarities, the book presents the Guianas as an ideal laboratory in which to study the effects of imperialism and cultural assimilation practices. The book also briefly considers the present political and cultural status of the three polities and makes some projections about their possible futures. In all, the book presents a complete history from prehistory until the present day covering the entirety of the Guianas region, relating a colorful history from a little-studied corner of the world.
Author : J.A.J. de Villiers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317049748
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Storm van 's Gravesande, The Rise of British Guiana, Compiled from His Despatches written by J.A.J. de Villiers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracts from despatches by Laurens Storm van 's Gravesande to the directors of the Zeeland Chamber of the Dutch West India Company, 1738-72, selected to illustrate the rise and expansion of the colony, with a detailed introduction. This volume ends with the despatch dated 15 March 1760. For May 1760 to September 1772, see the following volume (Second Series 27), with which the pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1911.
Author : Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674772854
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Respectable Society written by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Rise of Respectable Society' offers a new map of this territory as revealed by close empirical studies of marriage, the family, domestic life, work, leisure and entertainment in 19th century Britain.
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ISBN 13 : 0674976207
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469619490
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
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.
Author : Sir Walter Raleigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of Guiana and the Journal of the Second Voyage Thereto written by Sir Walter Raleigh and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bermuda Islands
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Bermuda written by Bermuda Islands and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Odida T. Quamina
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Mineworkers of Guyana written by Odida T. Quamina and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grace Aneiza Ali
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783749903
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora written by Grace Aneiza Ali and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives – from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left – and seven seminal decades of Guyana’s history – from the 1950s to the present day – bringing the voices of women to the fore. The volume is conceived of as a visual exhibition on the page; a four-part journey navigating the contributors’ essays and artworks, allowing the reader to trace the migration path of Guyanese women from their moment of departure, to their arrival on diasporic soils, to their reunion with Guyana. Eloquent and visually stunning, Liminal Spaces unpacks the global realities of migration, challenging and disrupting dominant narratives associated with Guyana, its colonial past, and its post-colonial present as a ‘disappearing nation’. Multimodal in approach, the volume combines memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, art and curatorial essays to collectively examine the mutable notion of ‘homeland’, and grapple with ideas of place and accountability. This volume is a welcome contribution to the scholarly field of international migration, transnationalism, and diaspora, both in its creative methodological approach, and in its subject area – as one of the only studies published on Guyanese diaspora. It will be of great interest to those studying women and migration, and scholars and students of diaspora studies. Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator and an Assistant Professor and Provost Fellow in the Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Her curatorial research practice centers on socially engaged art practices, global contemporary art, and art of the Caribbean Diaspora, with a focus on her homeland Guyana.
Author : Thomas Spinner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429716591
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book A Political And Social History Of Guyana, 1945-1983 written by Thomas Spinner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984, this is a documented account of the political history of the former British colony of Guyana. Providing a reflection of the increasing involvement of the United States in the Caribbean and Central America on the long-term political, social and economic effect that intervention can have on the small states of less developed countries during the period of 1945 to 1983. The text includes a detailed historical account of post-World War II politics and moves onto the emergence of the nationalist movement in Guyana in the late 1940s and the cold war period of the 1950s; concluding with the consequences both politically and economically in the 1980s.
Author : Hazel V. Carby
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788735110
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Imperial Intimacies written by Hazel V. Carby and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the 'white Carbys' and the 'black Carbys', as Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. Moving between the Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby's family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire's interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.
Author : Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674250265
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Arabic Book written by Beatrice Gruendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages. During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access. How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler’s The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century. The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known—until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters.
Author : John Slight
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674915828
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The British Empire and the Hajj written by John Slight and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Empire at its height governed more than half the world’s Muslims. It was a political imperative for the Empire to present itself to Muslims as a friend and protector, to take seriously what one scholar called its role as “the greatest Mohamedan power in the world.” Few tasks were more important than engagement with the pilgrimage to Mecca. Every year, tens of thousands of Muslims set out for Mecca from imperial territories throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, from the Atlantic Ocean to the South China Sea. Men and women representing all economic classes and scores of ethnic and linguistic groups made extraordinary journeys across waterways, deserts, and savannahs, creating huge challenges for officials charged with the administration of these pilgrims. They had to balance the religious obligation to travel against the desire to control the pilgrims’ movements, and they became responsible for the care of those who ran out of money. John Slight traces the Empire’s complex interactions with the Hajj from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. The story draws on a varied cast of characters—Richard Burton, Thomas Cook, the Begums of Bhopal, Lawrence of Arabia, and frontline imperial officials, many of them Muslim—and gives voice throughout to the pilgrims themselves. The British Empire and the Hajj is a crucial resource for understanding how this episode in imperial history was experienced by rulers and ruled alike.
Author : Cheddi Jagan
Publisher : Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789768163080
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The West on Trial written by Cheddi Jagan and published by Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited. This book was released on 1997-12-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deeply moving personal account of the struggle against imperialism by one of the Caribbean's leading political personalities.
