| #3191365 in Books | 2004-10-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x1.53 x5.98l,2.22 | File type: PDF | 696 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Customer|Intellectually stimulating.|About the Author|Clem Seecharan is Professor of Caribbean History and Head of Caribbean Studies, London Metropolitan University
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&rsq...
You easily download any file type for your device.Sweetening Bitter Sugar: Jock Campbell, the Booker Reformer in British Guiana, 1934-1966 | Clem Seecharan. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
