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The manager and his family are setting out for a drive in a barouche . The page from the Estate Inventory , 1817 , was kindly lent by Messrs . Booker Bros. All the poems quoted in Chapter 7 appeared in the magazine ' Kyk - over - al ...
The manager and his family are setting out for a drive in a barouche . The page from the Estate Inventory , 1817 , was kindly lent by Messrs . Booker Bros. All the poems quoted in Chapter 7 appeared in the magazine ' Kyk - over - al ...
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Opposite them , just visible beyond a high privet hedge stood a large stilted house in colonial style , the house of the plantation manager , the human centre of the whole community . The little houses , I noticed , were new ; they were ...
Opposite them , just visible beyond a high privet hedge stood a large stilted house in colonial style , the house of the plantation manager , the human centre of the whole community . The little houses , I noticed , were new ; they were ...
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The factory chimneys were belching smoke , and my companion , an Englishman who was born in the manager's house on the plantation and has worked on the plantations since he was a young man , said , ' It always makes me feel glad to see ...
The factory chimneys were belching smoke , and my companion , an Englishman who was born in the manager's house on the plantation and has worked on the plantations since he was a young man , said , ' It always makes me feel glad to see ...
Stranica 71
I had often been told in Georgetown that an estate manager was a man of power and renown who ruled his estate autocratically , and it seemed as if he were housed befittingly ; but in fact the enormous size of the managers ' houses is a ...
I had often been told in Georgetown that an estate manager was a man of power and renown who ruled his estate autocratically , and it seemed as if he were housed befittingly ; but in fact the enormous size of the managers ' houses is a ...
Stranica 72
The factory manager and the field manager joined us and although they were tough Scotsmen who clearly would take nonsense from no one they spoke to the manager and his wife with a touch of reverence in their voices , and until the ...
The factory manager and the field manager joined us and although they were tough Scotsmen who clearly would take nonsense from no one they spoke to the manager and his wife with a touch of reverence in their voices , and until the ...
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African agricultural allowed Amerindians appear become believe Berbice British Guiana brought building built called canals cause cent coast Colony coloured Commission Company Constitution Demerara difficult District drainage Dutch East Indian economic elected English Essequibo estates fact factory fall Federation fields forest Georgetown give given Government Governor ground Guianese hand important increase Indian industry interests Interior labour land leaves less live look Mackenzie manager matter means ment miles move Negro never officer once Party plantations political population possible prepared problems produced Report result rice river road Rupununi schemes schools seems slaves Street sugar survey taken tion told town trees turned various village West workers
Bibliografski podaci
| Naslov | British Guiana: The Land of Six Peoples Opseg 4 iz Corona library |
| Autor | Michael Swan |
| Izdanje | 2, ilustrirano |
| Izdavač | H.M. Stationery Office, 1957 |
| Izvornik iz | Kalifornijsko sveučilište |
| Digitalizirano | 10 pro 2019 |
| Duljina | Broj stranica: 235 |
| Izvezi navode | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |