Cultural power, resistance and pluralism
Subtitle: colonial Guyana 1838-1900
By: Brian L. Moore.
Publisher: The Press University of the West Indies; McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Kingston, Jamaica, WI; Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: British -- Guyana -- History -- 19th century; Minorities -- Guyana -- Ethnic identity; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Guyana; Guyana -- Civilization -- 19th century; Guyana -- Race relations
Description: "Seeks to determine manner in which colonial elite used culture and consensus of values to maintain their hegemony, and examines responses of the subordinate groups to these initiatives and nature of the resulting cultural fabric. His conclusion - that 19th-century Guyanese society consisted of a number of 'discrete cultural sections which shared very little with one another other than a common commitment to making money in the plantation society' - suggests the presence of acquisitive materialism that now inhibits growth of consensus-building mechanisms at the national level"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-368) and index.