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Getting to Know Waiwaiby Alan Tormaid Campbell
Routledge 1995; US$ 44.95A beautifully written account of time spent with the Wayapi that looks forward to Wayapi survivors one hundred years from now and considers what will be left as the destruction of the Amazon rainforest proceeds. more...
Off the Mapby John Harrison
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2005; US$ 14.99Few explorers have ventured to the Guiana Highlands deep in the Amazonian jungle. In 1950, Raymond Mauffrais tried and was never seen again. Fifty years later, inspired by Mauffrais' diary, John and Heather came to explore the region. more...
Crowns of Glory, Tears of Bloodby Emilia Viotti da Costa
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 38.00This text explores the 1823 slave rebellion in Demerara (now Guyana) - one of the largest in history. The 60,000 black slaves who rose up against their British masters were brutally put down. The book looks at the conflict which gave the rebellion life and the forces which finally ended slavery. more...
West Virginiaby Inc. Weigl Publishers
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. 2008; US$ 10.95West Virginia: The Mountain State, is a part of the Discover America Series. West Virginia celebrates the people and culture with beautiful images and engaging facts as well as describing the history, industry, environment, and sports that make this state unique. more...
U.S. Intervention in British Guianaby Stephen G. Rabe
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 49.95Presenting an account of the massive US covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969. Considering race, gender, religion, and ethnicity, with traditional approaches to diplomatic history, this analysis of the Cold War tragedy serves as a needed corrective to interpretations that depict the Cold War as an unsullied US triumph. more...
Chinese New Migrants in Surinameby Paul Tjon Sie Fat
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 70.00This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s. more...
Travels with Tooyby Richard Price
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 27.50Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, the worlds of the living and the dead, and the visible and invisible. With an innovative blend of storytelling and scholarship, Travels with Tooy recounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals. Included on the itinerary for this hallucinatory expedition: forays into the eighteenth century to talk with slaves newly arrived from Africa; leaps into the midst... more...
French Guiana Women in Culture, Business & Travelby World Trade Press
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 7.45Women often occupy different roles in a foreign culture. Avoid offensive assumptions and behavior by understanding the position of women in French Guianese society: their legal rights; access to education and health care; workforce participation; and their dating, marriage, and family life. more...
Guyana Travel Complete Profileby World Trade Press
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 16.80Whether planning your own trip to Guyana, or planning someone elses, youll be equipped with the all-inclusive travel reportboth of our Travel and Points of Interest reports rolled into one. more...
Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Powerby Colin A. Palmer
The University of North Carolina Press 2001; US$ 39.95Palmer, 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. The work details the rise and fall of Cheddi Jagan--from his initial electoral victory in the spring of 1953 to the aftermath of the British-orchestrated coup d'état that led to the suspension of the constitution and the removal of Jagan's independence-minded administration. Bringing the larger story of Caribbean colonialism into view, this work 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. more...









