Post-Colonial Trajectories in the Caribbean - The Three Guianas (Hardcover)

This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring, geographically similar countries with an analogous history of exploitation but by three different European colonisers. Studying the so-called 'Three Guianas' (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) offers a unique opportunity to look for similarities and differences in their contemporary patterns of development, particularly as they grapple with new and complex shifts in the regional, hemispheric and global context. Shaped decisively by their respective historical experiences, Guyana, in tandem with the laissez-faire approach of Britain toward its Caribbean colonies, was decolonised relatively early, in 1966, and has maintained a significant degree of distance from London. The hold of The Hague over Suriname, however, endured well after independence in 1975. French Guiana, by contrast, was decolonised much sooner than both of its neighbours, in 1946, but this was through full integration, thus cementing its place within the political economy and administrative structures of France itself. Traditionally isolated from the Caribbean, the wider Latin American continent and from each other, today, a range of similar issues - such as migration, resource extraction, infrastructure development and energy security - are coming to bear on their societies and provoking deep and complex changes.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Regionalisms Series
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2017
Editors:	Rosemarijn Hoefte • Matthew L. Bishop • Peter Clegg
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	190
ISBN-13:	978-1-4724-8045-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-4724-8045-7
Barcode:	9781472480453

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