MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 95219604
003 DLC
005 20111122082518.0
008 951030s1995 jm ab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 95219604
020 $a9766400067 (The Press University of the West Indies)
020 $a077351354X (McGill Queen's University Press)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $as-gy---
050 00 $aF2384$b.M66 1995
082 00 $a988.1$220
100 1 $aMoore, Brian L.,$d1948-
245 10 $aCultural power, resistance and pluralism :$bcolonial Guyana 1838-1900 /$cBrian L. Moore.
260 $aKingston, Jamaica, WI :$bThe Press University of the West Indies ;$aMontreal :$bMcGill-Queen's University Press,$c1995.
300 $axiii, 376 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [355]-368) and index.
520 1 $a"Seeks to determine manner in which colonial elite used culture and consensus of values to maintain their hegemony, and examines responses of the subordinate groups to these initiatives and nature of the resulting cultural fabric. His conclusion - that 19th-century Guyanese society consisted of a number of 'discrete cultural sections which shared very little with one another other than a common commitment to making money in the plantation society' - suggests the presence of acquisitive materialism that now inhibits growth of consensus-building mechanisms at the national level"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.$uhttp://www.loc.gov/hlas/
651 0 $aGuyana$xCivilization$y19th century.
650 0 $aBritish$zGuyana$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMinorities$zGuyana$xEthnic identity.
650 0 $aCultural pluralism$zGuyana.
651 0 $aGuyana$xRace relations.