British Guiana: The Land of Six PeoplesH.M. Stationery Office, 1957 - Broj stranica: 235 |
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... sugar - estates in the Colony . It was like a small town , dominated by the factory ; the road was full of people , walking or on bicycles , all more smartly dressed than the bedraggled peasants of the outlying districts . The car ...
... sugar - estates in the Colony . It was like a small town , dominated by the factory ; the road was full of people , walking or on bicycles , all more smartly dressed than the bedraggled peasants of the outlying districts . The car ...
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... Sugar Producers ' Associa- tion . Soon we had entered the suburbs of Georgetown , where the streets were crowded with people buying vegetables and fruit from the street market , or standing , laughing and talking in the dim light as ...
... Sugar Producers ' Associa- tion . Soon we had entered the suburbs of Georgetown , where the streets were crowded with people buying vegetables and fruit from the street market , or standing , laughing and talking in the dim light as ...
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... sugar estates , tending their paddy - fields and dreaming of the day when they will possess an acre and a cow . The African , with memories of slavery , has a subconscious antagonism to most forms of work connected with the land and his ...
... sugar estates , tending their paddy - fields and dreaming of the day when they will possess an acre and a cow . The African , with memories of slavery , has a subconscious antagonism to most forms of work connected with the land and his ...
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... sugar plantation , whose heavy clay formed a badly drained waste - land . As with all cultivation on the coastal belt , an elaborate system of irrigation and drainage had to be con- structed before the planting could begin . Today it is ...
... sugar plantation , whose heavy clay formed a badly drained waste - land . As with all cultivation on the coastal belt , an elaborate system of irrigation and drainage had to be con- structed before the planting could begin . Today it is ...
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... sugar production , gave me an outline of his company's plans for improving amenities and labour relations on the plantations . Few words are wasted in conver- sations in British Guiana ; there is little gossip or frivolous talk , for ...
... sugar production , gave me an outline of his company's plans for improving amenities and labour relations on the plantations . Few words are wasted in conver- sations in British Guiana ; there is little gossip or frivolous talk , for ...
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