Author: Duane Edwards
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031553527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Ethnic Stratification and Structural Pluralism in Guyana
Author: Duane Edwards
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031553527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031553527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Colonial Administration, 1800-1900
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Amerindians in Guyana 1803-1873
Author: Mary Noel Menezes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317827503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
These selected documents reveal the reaction and responses of the Amerindians to European values.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317827503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
These selected documents reveal the reaction and responses of the Amerindians to European values.
List of Books (with References to Periodicals) Relating to the Theory of Colonization, Government of Dependencies, Protectorates, and Related Topics
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography
Publisher:
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Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Theory of Colonization
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Bibliography of the West Indies (excluding Jamaica)
Author: Institute of Jamaica. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The New American Cyclopaedia
Author: George Ripley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
The New American Encyclopaedia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
The New American Cyclopædia
Author: George Ripley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Masters of All They Surveyed
Author: D. Graham Burnett
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226081212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the fascinating story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana. How did nineteenth-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to seasickness (and unable to swim), make his way up churning rivers into thick jungle, arid savanna, and forbidding mountain ranges, survive for the better part of a decade, and emerge with a map? What did that map mean? In answering these questions, D. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society and later by the British Crown, Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Drawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Masters of All They Surveyed will interest anyone who wants to understand the histories of colonialism and science.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226081212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the fascinating story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana. How did nineteenth-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to seasickness (and unable to swim), make his way up churning rivers into thick jungle, arid savanna, and forbidding mountain ranges, survive for the better part of a decade, and emerge with a map? What did that map mean? In answering these questions, D. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society and later by the British Crown, Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Drawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Masters of All They Surveyed will interest anyone who wants to understand the histories of colonialism and science.