ORDER AND PLACE IN A COLONIAL CITY by Juanita De Barros ( 9780773524552 )

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Title:

ORDER AND PLACE IN A COLONIAL CITY
PATTERNS OF STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE IN GEORGETOWN, BRITISH GUIANA,1889-1924

By:

Juanita De Barros

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Hardback

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077352455X

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MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

3 January, 2003

Pages:

264

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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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Canada

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McGill-Queen's University Press

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