{"product_id":"sweetening-bitter-sugar-clem-seecharan-9789766371937","title":"Sweetening Bitter Sugar: The Booker Reformer in British Guiana 1934-1966","description":"This book is about Jock Campbell's role in the shaping of British Guiana (Guyana) towards the end of Empire. Campbell, the head of the Booker Company which owned most of the sugar plantations in colonial Guyana was a reformer whose Fabian social beliefs drove him to secure major benifits for sugar workers in teh 1950s and 1960s. Clem Seecharan explores the fascinating interplay between Campbell's programme of reforms and the doctrinaire Marxism of Guyana's charismatic politician, Cheddi Jagan. Fed by his notion of 'bitter sugar' and an unrelenting hostility to Booker, Jagan exploited the loyalty of Indian sugar workers to foment instability on the plantations and thus undermined Campbell's mission to alleviate the colony's bitter plantation legacy.Seecharan provides a rigorous analysis of Campbell - a complex, progressive contradictory and passionate man - and his work in turbulent British Guiana, marked by nationalist stirrings, mobilisation doe decolonisation, the fragmenting of Jagan's nationalist coalition and descent into racial hatred and violence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clem Seecharan, Jock Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9766371938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789766371937\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian Randle Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2005 pg. 1880","brand":"Clem Seecharan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44126116282623,"sku":"9789766371937","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fed4811d-4f4d-46b8-9a1a-05073f821aaa.jpg?v=1687446365","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sweetening-bitter-sugar-clem-seecharan-9789766371937","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}