PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCHHELPJOURNALSFULL-TEXT LINKS

Citation:   Greenidge, Carl.   Empowering a peasantry in a Caribbean context: the case of land settlement schemes in Guyana, 1865-1985.   Barbados: Univ. of the West Indies Press, 2001. 208 p.:. ill., maps.. 23 cm..

Annotation:   Considers the role of various land settlement schemes in the creation of a rural wage labor market and in the evolution of a coastal/hinterland, plantation/peasant dichotomy within Guyana. Situates these schemes in relation to the abolition of slavery, the beginning of East Indian indenture, and efforts to protect interests of the sugar industry. Examines objectives, evolutions, and outcomes of these schemes. [JFH]

Subjects:
Land Settlement--Guyana
Land Tenure--Guyana
Peasants--Guyana
Land settlement--Guyana--History.
Land tenure--Guyana--History.
Agriculture and politics--Guyana.
Guyana--Economic conditions.
Land reform--Guyana--History.
Peasantry--Guyana.

LC Call No:  HD540.3.G74 2001
LC Control No:  2002407385

HLAS Volume:  59     HLAS Item#:  bi2002003718
HLAS Editor/Code: griffin sqj3500 Higbee