Cultural Pluralism and Nationalist Politics in British Guiana

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

Reviewed in Social and Economic Studies © 1969 .

Reviewed in World Politics © 1970 .

Reviewed in American Anthropologist © 1970 .

Reviewed in Comparative Politics © 1972 .

From the Foreword by M.G. Smith:

In this book, Professor Despres presents an account of Guyanese society and its development during the closing years of colonial rule. These decades witnessed the rise, arrest, and fragmentation of a popular movement for local independence from British domination. The monograph accordingly provides an arresting case study of an independence movement which dissolved into bitter sectional strife before achieving its goal.