Research Catalog

Title

Themes in African-Guyanese history / editors, Winston F. McGowan, James G. Rose and David A. Granger.

Publication

London : Hansib, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Mc Gowan, Winston.
• Rose, James G.
• Granger, David.

Description

xxii, 462 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 22 cm

Subjects

• Blacks > Guyana > History
• Guyana > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Previous edition: Georgetown, Cooperative Republic of Guyana : Free Press, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-442) and index.

Contents

The societies of western Africa on the eve of the Atlantic slave trade / Alvin O. Thompson -- The African slave trade to Guyana / Winston F. McGowan -- Slave society during the Dutch regime / Alvin O. Thompson -- The Demerara revolt, 1823 / Winston F. McGowan -- The social and economic subordination of the Guyanese Creoles after emancipation / Brian L. Moore -- The strikes of 1842 and 1848 / James G. Rose -- The African-Guyanese demographic transition: an analysis of growth trends, 1838-1988 / Carl A. Braithwaite -- African-Guyanese political disempowerment during the nineteenth century / Brian L. Moore -- The causes of the Protest of 1905 / Kimani S. Nehusi -- The origins of the labour movement / Hazel M. Woolford -- The coming of Crown Colony government in 1928 / James G. Rose -- Women in Guyanese politics, 1812-1964 / Hazel M. Woodford -- The development of political organisation up to 1953 / Kimani S. Nehusi -- State capitalism in Guyana: an assessment of Burnham's Cooperative Socialist Republic / Clive Y. Thomas -- The situation of African-Guyanese in the economy / Clive Y. Thomas.

ISBN

• 9781906190187
• 1906190186

LCCN

99989192971

OCLC

• ocn263296202
• 263296202
• SCSB-5503810

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries