Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana,1889-1924

By Juanita de Barros

The elites saw the city's markets and streets as dirty, filled with dangerous non-white crowds. The poor saw these public places as sites of play and livelihood. De Barros shows how these opposing views set the stage for a series of petty disputes and large-scale riots. The "little traditions" of Georgetown's multi-racial and multi-ethnic urban poor helped create a creole view of public spaces, articulated in the course of struggle. By uncovering the popular cultural patterns that underlay much of this unrest, De Barros demonstrates both their place within a larger West Indian cultural paradigm and the emergence of a peculiarly Guianese ritual of protest.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077352455X
• ISBN13: 9780773524552
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.5"