02754nam 2200625Ia 450 991081312240332120200520144314.0979-88-9313-459-91-4696-0391-80-8078-9961-5(CKB)2670000000058465(EBL)605926(OCoLC)676697993(SSID)ssj0000413842(PQKBManifestationID)11258098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413842(PQKBWorkID)10384812(PQKB)11646455(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245740(MdBmJHUP)muse23482(Au-PeEL)EBL605926(CaPaEBR)ebr10425439(MiAaPQ)EBC605926(EXLCZ)99267000000005846520100507d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCheddi Jagan and the politics of power British Guiana's struggle for independence /Colin A. Palmer1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press20101 online resource (376 p.)H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-1501-0 0-8078-3416-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.The imperial coup d'etat -- Containing Cheddi and scapegoating savage -- Taking stock -- Imagining and constructing a New Guiana -- Searching for Cheddi and the PPP -- The politics and trauma of race -- The politics of power -- Fairbain redux.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 ofH. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.GuyanaHistoryGuyanaHistory1803-1966GuyanaPolitics and government1803-1966Great BritainColoniesAmericaHistory988.1Palmer Colin A.1944-249407MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813122403321Cheddi Jagan and the politics of power4013578UNINA