This course, designed for final year students, encompasses a study of the historical development in territorial areas now termed Guyana through the first seventy years of the twentieth century. The study is intended to provide a comprehensive analysis of the main local and international socio- economic and political forces which have influenced and shaped developments in modern Guyana. It includes an examination of the early twentieth century colonial economy, the socio-economic instability of the first forty years, the development of the trade union movement, the rise of the nationalist movement, the evolution of mass based political parties, the 1953-57 political and constitutional Emergency, the transfer of power, political independence and post- colonial developments.
- Lecturer: Estherine Adams
- Lecturer: Kizzie Kitt-Peters