Name: Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora: Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (en Inglés)
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Author: Josiah, B.
ISBN: 9781349297016

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Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora: Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

B. Josiah

Editorial

Palgrave MacMillan

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

274

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4x15.6x1.6 cm

Peso

0.42 kg.

ISBN13

9781349297016

Categorías

Sudamérica
Siglo xix, c. 1800-c. 1899
Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Historia general y del mundo
Historia de américa

Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora: Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (en Inglés)

B. Josiah (Autor) · Palgrave MacMillan · Tapa Blanda

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From the late 1800s, African workers migrated to the mineral-rich hinterland areas of Guyana, mined gold, diamonds, and bauxite; diversified the country's economy; and contributed to national development. Utilizing real estate, financial, and death records, as well as oral accounts of the labor migrants along with colonial officials and mining companies' information stored in National Archives in Guyana, Great Britain, and the U.S. Library of Congress, the study situates miners into the historical structure of the country's economic development. It analyzes the workers attraction to mining from agriculture, their concepts of "order and progress," and how they shaped their lives in positive ways rather than becoming mere victims of colonialism. In this contentious plantation society plagued by adversarial relations between the economic elites and the laboring class, in addition to producing the strategically important bauxite for the aviation era of World Wars I & II, for almost a century the workers braved the ecologically hostile and sometimes deadly environments of the gold and diamond fields in the quest for El Dorado in Guyana.