Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora

Name: Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781349297016
Price: 18838 HUF
Availability: InStock

Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Szerző: B. Josiah

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Palgrave Macmillan

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

Küldés 5-8 napon belül

18 838 Ft

From the late 1800s, African workers migrated to the mineral-rich hinterland areas of Guyana, mined...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

B. Josiah

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2011

oldal

274

EAN

9781349297016

ISBN

9781349297016

Enbook ID

13485420

Kiadó

Palgrave Macmillan

Súly

454

Méretek

155 x 235 x 15

Teljes leírás

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.

Érdekelheti

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták

Leggyakrabban keresett

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Termékek

Termékek

Leggyakrabban keresett

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Termékek

Termékek

Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora

Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Információk a könyvről

Teljes leírás

Érdekelheti

Azok a vásárlók, akik ezt a könyvet megvásárolták, a következőket is megvásárolták