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Record Nr.

UNISA996247953603316

Autore

Rodney Walter

Titolo

A history of the Guyanese working people, 1881-1905 [[electronic resource] /] / Walter Rodney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md., : The Johns Hopkins University, c1981

ISBN

1-4214-4183-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 282 p. ) : ill., maps ;

Collana

Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture

Soggetti

Working class - Guyana - History

Plantations - Guyana - History

Elite (Social sciences) - Guyana - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography (p. 265-274) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Internal and External Constraints on the Development of the Working People -- 2. The Evolution of the Plantation Labor Force in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Crisis and Creativity in the Small-Farming Sectors -- 4. Socioeconomic Differentiation: On the Coast and in the Hinterland -- 5. The Politics of the Middle Classes and the Masses, 1880-1892 -- 6. Resistance and Accommodation -- 7. Race as a Contradiction among the Working People -- 8. The 1905 Riots -- Conclusion