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This volume describes one of the largest slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, when 60,000 slaves rose in revolt against their British masters in Demerara (now Guyana) in 1823. It examines the conflicts within the society that gave the rebellion life.
Guyana --- History --- 1803-1966 --- Slavery --- Insurrections, etc. --- Guyana - History - 1803-1966. --- Slave insurrections --- Slave rebellions --- Slave revolts --- Revolutions --- Smith, John, --- Smith, J.
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"Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana." "D. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Drawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination."--Jacket.
Traverses (Surveying) --- Cartography --- Cartographie --- Cheminements (Topographie) --- Kolonialismus. --- Exploratie. --- Kartering. --- Reizen. --- History --- Histoire --- Schomburgk, Robert H. --- Schomburgk, Robert H., --- Travel --- Journeys --- Voyages --- Guyana --- Guyana. --- Großbritannien --- Description and travel. --- Descriptions et voyages. --- Traverses (Surveying). --- Cheminements (Topographie). --- Großbritannien. --- Description and travel --- 1803-1966 --- Schomburgk, Robert Hermann
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