Order and Place in a Colonial City : Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana,1889-1924 PDF
by Juanita De Barros
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The elites saw the city's markets and streets as dirty, filled with dangerous non-white crowds.
The poor saw these public places as sites of play and livelihood.
De Barros shows how these opposing views set the stage for a series of petty disputes and large-scale riots.
The "little traditions" of Georgetown's multi-racial and multi-ethnic urban poor helped create a creole view of public spaces, articulated in the course of struggle.
By uncovering the popular cultural patterns that underlay much of this unrest, De Barros demonstrates both their place within a larger West Indian cultural paradigm and the emergence of a peculiarly Guianese ritual of protest.
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- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:19/02/2003
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- ISBN:9780773570696
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:19/02/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780773570696
