Download or read book U S Intervention in British Guiana written by Stephen G. Rabe and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism. When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in the 1960s, U.S. officials in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations feared it would become a communist nation under the leadership of Cheddi Jagan, a Marxist who was very popular among the South Asian (mostly Indian) majority. Although to this day the CIA refuses to confirm or deny involvement, Rabe presents evidence that CIA funding, through a program run by the AFL-CIO, helped foment the labor unrest, race riots, and general chaos that led to Jagan's replacement in 1964. The political leader preferred by the United States, Forbes Burnham, went on to lead a twenty-year dictatorship in which he persecuted the majority Indian population. Considering race, gender, religion, and ethnicity along with traditional approaches to diplomatic history, Rabe's analysis of this Cold War tragedy serves as a needed corrective to interpretations that depict the Cold War as an unsullied U.S. triumph.

Download or read book Growing up in Guyana Formerly British Guiana written by Wipey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My purpose was to share some of my life experiences as I grew up in British Guiana and Guyana. My memoir is in no way a complete autobiography of my life, but just a brief synopsis of some of my cherished years.

Download or read book Who is Who in British Guiana 1945 1948 written by Erwin Brewster and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transcription of a text published in British Guiana in 1948 listing 4351 individuals together with their occupations and some details of their accomplishments. This directory must have been very useful at the time of its original publication, but after nearly 70 years is of little if any practical commercial value. It has been reproduced purely for the purpose of informing current and future generations in Guyana of their ancestors and their accomplishments. From a genealogical perspective therefore, it may serve some useful purpose.

Download or read book Forbidden Freedom written by Cheddi Jagan and published by Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1954, Jagan's ""Story of British,Guiana"" appeared in the aftermath of the military,intervention that removed from office the,democratically elected government of which he was,Premier. Jagan showed how this fitted into both,the colonial policy of Britain and the Cold War,spearheaded by the US. The book includes an,analysis of labour and the colonies as well as a,new preface by the author calling for a break in,policies which are leading both the developed and,developing worlds faster to disaster.

Download or read book The Official Gazette of British Guiana written by British Guiana and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana written by Charles Barrington Brown and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Development of Land Law in British Guyana written by Fenton H. Ramsahoye and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power written by Colin A. Palmer and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of the constitution and the removal of Jagan's independence-minded administration. Jagan's political odyssey continued--he was reelected to the premiership in 1957--but in 1964 he fell out of power again under pressure from Guianese, British, and U.S. officials suspicious of Marxist influences on the People's Progressive Party, founded in 1950 by Jagan and his activist wife, Janet Rosenberg. But Jagan's political life was not over--after decades in the opposition, he became Guyana's president in 1992. Subtly analyzing the actual role of Marxism in Caribbean anticolonial struggles and bringing the larger story of Caribbean colonialism into view, Palmer examines the often malevolent roles played by leaders at home and abroad and shows how violence, police corruption, political chicanery, racial politics, and poor leadership delayed Guyana's independence until 1966, scarring the body politic in the process.

Download or read book The History of British Guiana written by Henry G. Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twenty five Years in British Guiana written by Henry Kirke and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British Guiana written by John BRUMELL and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of British Guiana from the Year 1668 to the Present Time written by James Rodway and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book An Illustrated History of British Guiana written by George Hanneman Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Description of British Guiana Geographical and Statistical written by Robert Hermann Schomburgk and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sugar Without Slaves written by Alan H. Adamson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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