Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora: Guyana in the

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Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora: Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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.
Country USA
Brand MACMILLAN
Manufacturer Palgrave Macmillan
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-11-03
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780230115897

Country	USA
Brand	MACMILLAN
Manufacturer	Palgrave Macmillan
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2011-11-03
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780230115897

Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora: Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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