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- catalog abstract ""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. http://www.loc.gov/hlas".
- catalog contributor b8931085.
- catalog coverage "Guyana Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Guyana Race relations.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog 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. http://www.loc.gov/hlas".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-368) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Guyanese society after emancipation -- Elite victorian culture: material culture, social attitudes and values -- Elite victorian culture: leisure -- Afro-Creole folk culture: material and temporal -- Afro-Creole folk culture: spiritual -- Indian Bhojpuri culture: material and temporal -- Indian Bhojpuri culture: spiritual -- Portuguese Latin culture -- Chinese Hua-Qiao culture -- Conclusion: cultural power, resistance and pluralism.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 376 p. :".
- catalog identifier "077351354X (McGill Queen's University Press)".
- catalog identifier "9766400067 (The Press University of the West Indies)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Kingston, Jamaica, WI : The Press University of the West Indies ; Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Guyana Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Guyana Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Guyana".
- catalog spatial "Guyana.".
- catalog subject "988.1 20".
- catalog subject "British Guyana History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Cultural pluralism Guyana.".
- catalog subject "F2384 .M66 1995".
- catalog subject "Minorities Guyana Ethnic identity.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Guyanese society after emancipation -- Elite victorian culture: material culture, social attitudes and values -- Elite victorian culture: leisure -- Afro-Creole folk culture: material and temporal -- Afro-Creole folk culture: spiritual -- Indian Bhojpuri culture: material and temporal -- Indian Bhojpuri culture: spiritual -- Portuguese Latin culture -- Chinese Hua-Qiao culture -- Conclusion: cultural power, resistance and pluralism.".
- catalog title "Cultural power, resistance, and pluralism : colonial Guyana 1838-1900 / Brian L. Moore.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".