British Guiana

Except for brief periods of instability in British Guiana and Jamaica, in 1924, the region settled into a decade-and-a-half of relative calm.

Among his topics are the Angle Gabriel in the tropics: British Guiana in 1856, trouble on the Queen's highways: Belfast in 1872, the ruling race stumbles: Bombay in 1874, how cultural assumptions guided the policing of communal riots, and how communal riots weakened the British Empire.

(4) Debates about rights versus privileges in India in the 1860s and 1870s were well reported and would likely have influenced official thinking in British Guiana. In India, 'the colonial state argued that forest use had been based on the agreement of the raja and therefore was a privilege rather than a right, and since the colonial government was the successor to the rajas, it now had the prerogative to extinguish these privileges where it saw fit' (Ribbentrop 1900, 97, in Springate-Baginski and Blaikie 2007, 32).

The original programmes were thought to have been filmed in black and white, yet a treasure trove of 16mm colour film has now been unearthed, featuring highlights from expeditions to West Africa and what was then British Guiana. There's also footage from a trip to Indonesia to hunt for the rare komodo dragon.

But the world's most valuable is The British Guiana 1 Cent Magenta sold for PS6.4m in New York.

Mother's House Dot Dot Com, 1966-99, exemplifies this transitory stage in Bowling's practice: From the neck down, it's a hot haze of atmospheric pinks and saffron yellows; silk-screened above in gray-on-orange ground is the faint, dreamlike "mother's house," an image of the general store Bowling's mum owned during his childhood in what was then British Guiana. The motif recurs in Mel Edwards Decides, 1968, from Bowling's "Map Paintings" series, 1967-71--an enormous, enigmatic work rendered in spectral stains of goldenrod yellow, and a highlight of this survey.

Writing on population trends in British Guiana, Irene Taeuber observes: "the failure of extended economic development is related to the difficulty of topography, the deficiencies of soil and the general overabundance of water ...

Published studies on leadership roles among East Indian (hereafter Indian) women during indenture in British Guiana (now Guyana) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are rare.

Indian experience in British Guiana, the role of memory, food and film, or a pre-Orientalism writing class with Mr.

He was well-traveled, being born in Georgetown, Guyana (British Guiana), the son of a Barbadian mother and a Guyanese father, moving early in life to live in Barbados, and then Panama, New York, and eventually England.