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Order and place in a colonial city : patterns of struggle and resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924 /
Throughout the post-slavery Caribbean, former slaves and masters fought to determine the shape of the new free societies. Urban areas - with their growing populations and vibrant Afro-creole culture - were often the sites of these struggles. In Order and Place in a Colonial City Juanita De Barros ex...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Montréal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Throughout the post-slavery Caribbean, former slaves and masters fought to determine the shape of the new free societies. Urban areas - with their growing populations and vibrant Afro-creole culture - were often the sites of these struggles. In Order and Place in a Colonial City Juanita De Barros explores the conflicting visions of public areas held by local political and economic elites and by non-white urban poor in Georgetown, British Guiana, demonstrating that the period of study was marked by class and racial tensions as the social and political landscape of the city changed significantly. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-248) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773570696 0773570691 1282860836 9781282860834 9786612860836 6612860839 |