Sweetening Bitter Sugar by Clem Seecharan

Sweetening Bitter Sugar by Clem Seecharan

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.

Clem Seecharan is an emeritus professor of history at London Metropolitan University, where he was head of Caribbean studies for nearly 20 years.

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ISBN 13	9789766371937
ISBN 10	9766371938
Title	Sweetening Bitter Sugar
Author	Clem Seecharan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica
Year published	2004-12-30
Number of pages	675
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