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by Clem Seecharan; Jock Campbell

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This book is about Jock Campbell's role in the shaping of British Guiana (Guyana) towards the end of Empire. Campbell, the head of the Booker Company which owned most of the sugar plantations in colonial Guyana was a reformer whose Fabian social beliefs drove him to secure major benifits for sugar workers in teh 1950s and 1960s. Clem Seecharan explores the fascinating interplay between Campbell's programme of reforms and the doctrinaire Marxism of Guyana's charismatic politician, Cheddi Jagan. Fed by his notion of 'bitter sugar' and an unrelenting hostility to Booker, Jagan exploited the loyalty of Indian sugar workers to foment instability on the plantations and thus undermined Campbell's mission to alleviate the colony's bitter plantation legacy.Seecharan provides a rigorous analysis of Campbell - a complex, progressive contradictory and passionate man - and his work in turbulent British Guiana, marked by nationalist stirrings, mobilisation doe decolonisation, the fragmenting of Jagan's nationalist coalition and descent into racial hatred and violence

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  • Title Sweetening Bitter Sugar: The Booker Reformer in British Guiana 1934-1966
  • Author Clem Seecharan; Jock Campbell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 696
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica
  • Publication date 2000-09-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9789766371937 / 9766371938
  • Weight 2.22 lbs (1.01 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.53 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.89 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
  • Category History - General History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.173

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  • Choice, 06/01/2005, Page 1880
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