Publications

These titles are provided as a general indication of material published on Guyana.


Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline Anne, The Venezuela-Guyana Border Dispute: Britain's Colonial Legacy in Latin America. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1984.

Burrowes, Reynold A., The Wild Coast: An Account of Politics in Guyana. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Pub. Co., 1984.

Daly, Vere T., A Short History of the Guyanese People. London: Macmillan Education, 1975.

Despres, Leo, Cultural Pluralism and Nationalist Politics in British Guiana. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1967.

Heath, Roy, Orealla. London: Allison & Busby, 1984.

Heath, Roy, The Armstrong Trilogy. Persea, 1994.

Jagan, Cheddi, The West on Trial. Berlin: Seven Seas, 1972.

Jeffrey, Henry B., and Baber, Colin, Guyana: Politics, Economics, and Society. Boulder, Colorado: Rienner, 1986.

Mecklenburg, Kurt K., Guyana Gold. Carlton Press, 1990.

Merrill, Tim L., ed., Guyana and Belize: Country Studies. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993.

Mittelholzer, Edgar, Children of Kwayana. London: New England Library, 1968.

Naipaul, V.S., The Middle Passage. New York: Macmillan, 1963.

Riviera, Peter, Individual and Society in Guyana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organization. Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Rodney, Walter, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.

Simms, Peter, Trouble in Guyana: People, Personalities, Politics. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966.

Singh, Chaitram, Guyana: Politics in a Plantation Society. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988.

Smith, Raymond T., Kinship and Class in the West Indies: A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Spinner, Thomas J., Jr., A Political and Social History of Guyana, 1945-1983. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1984.

Thomas, Clive Y., The Rise of the Authoritarian State in Peripheral Societies. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984.


Major Newspapers: Stabroek News (independent daily), David de Caires, owner and publisher

Guyana Chronicle (government-owned, 6 days a week), Sharief Khan, editor-in-chief

Mirror (PPP) party newspaper, twice a week), Janet Jagan, editor-in-chief

Catholic Standard (official voice of the Catholic Church, weekly), Fr. Andrew Morrison, editor-in-chief.


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