Guyana History

In 1803, during the Napoleonic Wars, the British imperial government conquered the Dutch colony of Berbice and took over the management of presumed governmental slaves. These consisted of persons on four estates and artisans in New Amsterdam, the colony's capital, which comprised a group known as winkel (shop) slaves. The British efforts to generate a profit from these slaves caused conflict and engendered resistance.

This study is important because it illustrates that the imperial government arrived at the general abolition of slavery throughout its colonies in a rather ad hoc and piecemeal fashion. The study also raises important questions about the government's commitment to general abolition, noting that the crown slaves were hardly treated better than the majority of privately owned slaves. Thompson uses a wealth of archival sources and makes a significant contribution by utilizing primary material so that the slaves themselves recount their individual experiences. The major strength of this work is that it deals with state slaves, a study that has never been done before in the historiography of slavery in the Americas.

This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana.

"This is an especially impressive study, one really without equal in terms of its coverage and sophistication. . . . While the analysis is predominately neoclassical, it is sensibly and sensitively done, and there is much to be learned from these pages on the immense difficulties involved in designing and implementing appropriate small-state economic policy. The tug of economic reality facing small economies in an open-world economy make the push coming from internal interests a real balancing act, as Worrell appreciates. There are other points one might have liked Worrell to have touched upon, but this work is really in a class by itself; there is no other general economic study of the region that is even remotely comparable." Choice

This contribution to the debate on security in the Caribbean highlights the security problems of small states. The authors draw from realist theory, conflict theory, and political economy analyses to examine the indigenous, regional and extra-regional dynamics shaping the Caribbean security environment. Four case studies are presented: Barbados, Guyana, the Virgin Islands, and the Belize-Guatemala territorial dispute. This work is valuable to scholars and policy analysts of military/security issues, the Caribbean/Latin America, and Third World development.

The Caribbean, like regions else-where, is caught in what has been called democracy's global "Third Wave." In this volume, contributors examine the nature of democratization in the region together with its accessory, human rights. The emphasis is to extend the analysis & debates beyond political democracy & civil & political rights to consider also economic democracy & economic & social rights. Because the democracy & human rights challenges & dynamics vary across countries, the work also offers extensive single-country assessments. Contributors: Francis Alexis, Damian J. Fernandez, Anselm A. Francis, Dorith Grant-Wisdom, Clifford E. Griffin, Ivelaw L. Griffith, Elizabeth A. Houppert, Robert E. Maguire, Trevor Munroe, David J. Padilla, Betty N. Sedoc-Dahlberg, W. Marvin Will, Larman C. Wilson.