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Author : Michael Swan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book British Guiana written by Michael Swan and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walton Look Lai
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
ISBN 13 : 9789766400217
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995 written by Walton Look Lai and published by University of the West Indies Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese in West Indies starts with an excellent introductory essay to place nineteenth-century Chinese immigration in its wider context: the worldwide Chinese migrations, the post-slavery Caribbean background, the contract labour schemes developed after emancipation . . . All the documents are well chosen, and together they deal with virtually every important aspect of the migration of Chinese people to the West Indies and their subsequent experiences. Foreword In the first seven chapters, nearly all the documents are 'official', generated by government agencies or officers. Colonial Office correspondence and papers, reports of Immigrations Department officials and British agents in South China, reports and papers of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission in London, Parliamentary Papers these are the main sources from which Look Lai chooses his extracts . . . But in chapters 8 and 9, which deal with the post-indenture Chinese after 1870, and the free immigration starting around 1890, the type of documentation changes. The Chinese were no longer the responsibility of any governmental agency and their arrival and subsequent activities generated little official documentation. In these chapters, Look Lai relies on non-official sources . . . Although the documentary extracts do not go beyond 1950, the family biographies have been updated to the early 1990s. They are based on personal interviews with, or written accounts by, elderly family members.
Author : R.A. Glasgow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401032130
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Guyana: Race and Politics among Africans and East Indians written by R.A. Glasgow and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael G Gray
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811267863
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell G.c.m.g.: 1836 To 1899 - The Forgotten Colonial Governor written by Michael G Gray and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first known biography of Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell G C M G, former Governor of the Straits Settlements and District Grand Master of the freemasons in the Eastern Archipelago.The book traces his early life as an officer in the Royal Marines, where he served for 15 years, ending up with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, as well as his long, distinguished career in the Colonial Service, serving Queen Victoria in many countries including Natal in Southern Africa during and after the Zulu Wars, British Honduras, British Guiana, Fiji and Singapore.It is his time in Singapore that is given extensive treatment in the book. Having been sworn in as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of The Straits Settlements and their Dependencies (the 'Colony') on 1 February 1894, Mitchell inherited a colony, which was in very serious financial difficulty. With his prudent financial management, the governor brought the Colony back to a strong financial position and completed many projects. He was also instrumental in the implementation of the Federation of Malay States and was its first High Commissioner.His governorship was cut short when he died suddenly at the Colony's Government House (the current Istana) on 7 December 1899 and was buried in Singapore.However, his legacy was written out by his successor Sir Frank Swettenham who would take credit for the Colony's achievements. To this end, this book will go towards correcting the history of Singapore and Malaya at that time.The book also contains one of the very few public accounts of freemasonry in Singapore during the 19th Century and those of prominent freemasons participating in the colonial administration and commercial sector in the Colony.
Author : Wanni W. Anderson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813537517
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Displacements and Diasporas written by Wanni W. Anderson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and Diasporas explores this genuinely transnational Asian American experience-one that crosses the Pacific and traverses the Americas from Canada to Brazil, from New York to the Caribbean. With an emphasis on anthropological and historical contexts, the essays show how the experiences of Asians across the Americas have been shaped by the social dynamics and politics of settlement locations as much as by transnational connections and the economic forces of globalization. Contributors bring new insights to the unique situations of Asian communities previously overlooked by scholars, such as Vietnamese Canadians and the Lao living in Rhode Island. Other topics include Chinese laborers and merchants in Latin America and the Caribbean, Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, Afro-Amerasians in America, and the politics of second-generation Indian American youth culture. Together the essays provide a valuable comparative portrait of Asians across the Americas. Engaging issues of diaspora, transnational social practice and community building, gender, identity, institutionalized racism, and deterritoriality, this volume presents fresh perspectives on displacement, opening the topic up to a wider, more interdisciplinary terrain of inquiry and teaching.
Author : Peter Ruhomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Centenary History of the East Indians in British Guiana, 1838-1938 written by Peter Ruhomon and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Ramdin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814775486
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Arising from Bondage written by Ron Ramdin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arising from Bondage is an epic story of the struggle of the Indo-Caribbean people. From the 1830's through World War I hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers were shipped from India to the Caribbean and settled in the former British, Dutch, French and Spanish colonies. Like their predecessors, the African slaves, they labored on the sugar estates. Unlike the Africans their status was ambiguous--not actually enslaved yet not entirely free--they fought mightily to achieve power in their new home. Today in the English-speaking Caribbean alone there are one million people of Indian descent and they form the majority in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. This study, based on official documents and archives, as well as previously unpublished material from British, Indian and Caribbean sources, fills a major gap in the history of the Caribbean, India, Britain and European colonialism. It also contributes powerfully to the history of diaspora and migration.
Author : Bridget Brereton
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435983055
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Social Life in the Caribbean, 1838-1938 written by Bridget Brereton and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1985 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a clear and readable account ofa formative period in the history of the region. The text is divided into two halves: the first half looks at the structure of society and covers issues of race, class and wealth, while the second half looks at four particular aspects of community life - religion, the family, education and festivals...
Author : National Library of Ireland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of Books Added 1894-1903 written by National Library of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Swan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book British Guiana written by Michael Swan and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Pinckard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters from Guiana written by George Pinckard and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil L. Whitehead
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822384302
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Dark Shamans written by Neil L. Whitehead and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaimà, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil that involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims. At once a memoir of cultural encounter and an ethnographic and historical investigation, this book offers a sustained, intimate look at kanaimà, its practitioners, their victims, and the reasons they give for their actions. Neil L. Whitehead tells of his own involvement with kanaimà—including an attempt to kill him with poison—and relates the personal testimonies of kanaimà shamans, their potential victims, and the victims’ families. He then goes on to discuss the historical emergence of kanaimà, describing how, in the face of successive modern colonizing forces—missionaries, rubber gatherers, miners, and development agencies—the practice has become an assertion of native autonomy. His analysis explores the ways in which kanaimà mediates both national and international impacts on native peoples in the region and considers the significance of kanaimà for current accounts of shamanism and religious belief and for theories of war and violence. Kanaimà appears here as part of the wider lexicon of rebellious terror and exotic horror—alongside the cannibal, vampire, and zombie—that haunts the western imagination. Dark Shamans broadens discussions of violence and of the representation of primitive savagery by recasting both in the light of current debates on modernity and globalization.
Author : Toni Martin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315510111
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Caribbean History written by Toni Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More centrally focused on the Caribbean than any other survey of the region, Caribbean History examines a wide range of topics to give students a thorough understanding of the region's history. The text favors a traditional, largely chronological approach to the study of Caribbean history, however, because it is impossible to be entirely chronological in the complex agglomeration of often disparate historical experiences, some thematic chapters occupy the broadly chronological framework. The author creates a readable narrative for undergraduates that contains the most recent scholarship and pays particular attention to the U.S.-Caribbean connection to more fully relate to students.
Author : Laura Kina
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295749202
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book War Baby / Love Child written by Laura Kina and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and contemporary art. The book pairs artwork and interviews with nineteen emerging, mid-career, and established mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American artists, including Li-lan and Kip Fulbeck, with scholarly essays exploring such topics as Vietnamese Amerasians, Korean transracial adoptions, and multiethnic Hawai'i. As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age in an era of "optional identity," this collection brings together first-person perspectives and a wider scholarly context to shed light on changing Asian American cultures. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJp0MDtKqyY&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=2&feature=plcp
Author : University of Guyana. Library. A.W.B. Long Collection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the A.W.B. Long Collection written by University of Guyana. Library. A.W.B. Long Collection and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Social and Economic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Spink & Son
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Numismatic Circular and Catalogue of Coins, Tokens, Commemorative & War Medals, Books & Cabinets written by Spink & Son and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
