A People's Political History of Guyana, 1838-1964 / Kimani Nehusi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nehusi, Kimani, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (782 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hertford, England : Hansib Publications Limited, [2018]

Summary:

This work is a multi-disciplinary reconstruction, analysis and evaluation of the development, organisation and mobilisation of political consciousness in Guyana between the legal termination of physical enslavement in 1838 and the very eve of flag-and-anthem independence in 1966. Guyanese transformed themselves from disempowered colonial subjects to citizens of variable levels of awareness and empowerment during those one hundred and twenty-six years of struggle. By the end of the study the first stirrings of political consciousness of the 1840s had become a fully blown anti-colonial social movement that reflected itself particularly in ideology ,education, the media, the arts, sport and economic, social and political organisation. Numerous organisations, themes, issues and tendencies within the movement receive careful attention in rigorous interrogation through the prisms of class, occupation, race, gender, colour and personality. A critical dialogue is maintained throughout the text with a multitude of sources of numerous kinds. Trajectories in economic and social development, the evolving sense of Guyanese nationality, the prevailing social and political values, attitudes and behaviours and the resulting mood of the country at critical junctures in its history, as well as the Caribbean background, are regularly updated and skilfully interwoven into the text to continuously illuminate the evolving story. The result is a single, continuous, carefully nuanced, well balanced and superbly organised narrative that presents the complex political evolution of the country in an easily intelligible and extremely readable text. comprehensive, authoritative and timely, the Guyanese and Caribbean public and members of their numerous communities across the world, students and teachers in high schools, lecturers and students in the humanities and social sciences in colleges and universities, international workers, politicians indeed everyone with an interest in understanding Guyana in particular and the Caribbean in general, will find this work not merely necessary, but invaluable also.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Abbreviations

List of Tables

List of Maps

List of Appendices

List of Photos

About the Author

Foreword and Acknowledgements

Preface

General Introduction: Contradictions in Nature and Humanity

Section 1: Making Freedom in an ERA of Repression: Politics in Guiana, 1838-1880

Introduction

Chapter I: In the Beginning. The Indigenous People's Tradition of Politics

Chapter II: Colonial Politics, 1838-1880

Chapter III: The British Guiana African Association (BGAA), 1842 and Other Early forms of Afrikan Guianese Self Organisation

Chapter IV: The Reform Association, 1842-1852

Section 2: The Emergence of the Middle Class and the Reform Movement, 1880-1896

Introduction: The Origins and Birth of the Guyanese Middle Class

Chapter V: Defining the Self: Professional Associations and the Portuguese

Chapter VI: The Movement for Reform

Chapter VII: The British Guiana Political Reform Club

Chapter VIII: The British Guiana Constitutional Reform Association

Chapter IX: The British Guiana Progressive Association

Section 3: The Masses in Action and the Middle Class in and out of the Legislature: Mass Protests and Popular Front Politics, 1896-1928

Chapter X: The New Politics

Chapter XI: The People's Association

Chapter XII: The Young Guianese Party and the Elections of 1916

Chapter XIII: Protest Politics and the First Suspension

Section 4: The Rise of National Racial Sections and the Revolt of the Masses, 1928-1945

Introduction: The Consequences of Suspension

Chapter XIV: The Political Organisation of Race

Chapter XV: The Political Organisation of Labour

Chapter XVI: The Masses and Middle Class Politics

Section 5: The PAC/PPP and the Rise of the National Movement, 1945-1955.

Introduction: People, Events and Processes Within and Without

Chapter XVII: Economy and Society, 1945-1955

Chapter XVIII: Expressions of Guianese National Consciousness: Women, The Arts and the Press.

Chapter XIX: The Political Affairs Committee (PAC)

Chapter XX: The Original People's Progressive Party (PPP)

Section 6: Reaction and Disintegration, 1956-1964

Chapter XXI: Cheddi Jagan and Forbes Burnham in Colonial Guiana: The Formation of Political Personalities in a Plantation Society, 1918-1964

Chapter XXII: The Split Of 1955

Chapter XXIII: Contradictions between Dr. Jagan and the 'Ultra Left': the Split in the Original PPP in 1956/57

Chapter XXIV: The National Democratic Party (NDP) and the United Democratic Party (UDP)

Chapter XXV: The People's National Congress (PNC)

Chapter XXVI: The National Labour Front (NLF) and the Guiana Labour Party (GLP)

Chapter XXVII: The End of 'Marking Time' and the all Party Conference

Chapter XXVIII: The United Force (UF)

Chapter XXIX: The Political Mobilisation of Race, 1956-1964

Chapter XXX: Conclusion: From Subjects to Citizens

Appendix I: Biographical Notes

Appendix II: The Franchise in Guiana, 1895-1926

Appendix III: The Evolution of the Franchise in Guiana, 1839-1964

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-912662-10-8