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

by Barbara P. Josiah

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230115896
• ISBN13: 9780230115897
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"