Author: Higman, B.W.
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231033603
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
This volume looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region, depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The chapters discussing methodology are followed by studies of particular themes of historiography. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. The final section is a full and detailed bibliography serving not only as a guide to the volume but also as an invaluable reference for the General History of the Caribbcan as a whole.
General History of the Caribbean
Author: Higman, B.W.
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231033603
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
This volume looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region, depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The chapters discussing methodology are followed by studies of particular themes of historiography. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. The final section is a full and detailed bibliography serving not only as a guide to the volume but also as an invaluable reference for the General History of the Caribbcan as a whole.
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231033603
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
This volume looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region, depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The chapters discussing methodology are followed by studies of particular themes of historiography. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. The final section is a full and detailed bibliography serving not only as a guide to the volume but also as an invaluable reference for the General History of the Caribbcan as a whole.
General History of the Caribbean UNESCO Volume 6
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349737763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Volume6 looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The authors examine how the lingual diversity of the region has affected the historian's ability to coalesce an historical account. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. This volume concludes with a detailed bibliography that is comprehensive of the entire series.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349737763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Volume6 looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The authors examine how the lingual diversity of the region has affected the historian's ability to coalesce an historical account. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. This volume concludes with a detailed bibliography that is comprehensive of the entire series.
Guyana
Author: Bob Temple
Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers
ISBN: 9781422206379
Category : Guyana
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discusses the history, land, economy, people, and festivals of Guyana.
Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers
ISBN: 9781422206379
Category : Guyana
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discusses the history, land, economy, people, and festivals of Guyana.
General History of the Caribbean
Author: Unesco
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9789231033605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
The principal objective of this volume is to provide a survey of the development of historical understanding in the region. It also seeks to point to the future, setting out a new agenda and reflecting on the potential of new methods and interpretations.
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9789231033605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
The principal objective of this volume is to provide a survey of the development of historical understanding in the region. It also seeks to point to the future, setting out a new agenda and reflecting on the potential of new methods and interpretations.
General History of the Caribbean: Methodology and historiography of the Caribbean
Author: B. W. Higman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
The principal objective of this volume is to provide a survey of the development of historical understanding in the region. It also seeks to point to the future, setting out a new agenda and reflecting on the potential of new methods and interpretations.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
The principal objective of this volume is to provide a survey of the development of historical understanding in the region. It also seeks to point to the future, setting out a new agenda and reflecting on the potential of new methods and interpretations.
The Sly Company of People Who Care
Author: Rahul Bhattacharya
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429929235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerizing beauty. Amid beautiful, decaying wooden houses in Georgetown, on coastal sugarcane plantations, and in the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond hunters, he grows absorbed with the fantastic possibilities of this new place where descendants of the enslaved and indentured have made a new world. Ultimately, to fulfill his purpose, he prepares to mount an adventure of his own. His journey takes him beyond Guyanese borders, and his companion will be the feisty, wild-haired Jan. In this dazzling novel, propelled by a singularly forceful voice, Rahul Bhattacharya captures the heady adventures of travel, the overheated restlessness of youth, and the paradoxes of searching for life's meaning in the escape from home. The Sly Company of People Who Care is the winner of the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429929235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerizing beauty. Amid beautiful, decaying wooden houses in Georgetown, on coastal sugarcane plantations, and in the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond hunters, he grows absorbed with the fantastic possibilities of this new place where descendants of the enslaved and indentured have made a new world. Ultimately, to fulfill his purpose, he prepares to mount an adventure of his own. His journey takes him beyond Guyanese borders, and his companion will be the feisty, wild-haired Jan. In this dazzling novel, propelled by a singularly forceful voice, Rahul Bhattacharya captures the heady adventures of travel, the overheated restlessness of youth, and the paradoxes of searching for life's meaning in the escape from home. The Sly Company of People Who Care is the winner of the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.
The Colony of British Guyana and Its Labouring Population
Author: H. V. P. Bronkhurst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Guyana
Author: Alexis Rockman
Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Zoological/ botanical paintings.
Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Zoological/ botanical paintings.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1592
Book Description