Glimpses of British Guiana at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886 by Sara Albuquerque

“…This paper uses the example of the British Guiana Court at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 as a case study to demonstrate how British Guiana (now Guyana) was represented in Britain at the time, by crossreferencing different materials (e.g. objects, correspondence, reports, and newspapers from that period). …”
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Shadow Work: Architecting While Black in British Guiana by Michelle Joan Wilkinson

“…British and US architects were involved in British Guiana’s planning and housing development work. …”
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Salvaging democracy? The United States and Britain in British Guiana 1961-1964 by Sillery, JL

“…It uses intervention in British Guiana as a base from which to approach broader Cold War, alliance and hemispheric issues. …”

Music, archives, and colonial encounter in the Cold War: a case study from British Guiana by Bullivant, J

“…With reference to the archival records of one Cold War colonial encounter in British Guiana, this article reveals a more disturbing strain of postwar cultural relations, one in which efforts at rapprochement were obstructed by imperial powers, and in which colonial cultural voices were denied or dismissed. …”

Redescobrindo a Amazônia: Comentário da Tradução Parcial de A Description of British Guiana Geographical and Statistical, de Robert Schomburgk by Antônio Sérgio da Costa Pinto, Joaquim Martins Cancela Júnior

“… O presente artigo consiste nos comentários da tradução de A description of British Guiana, de Robert Schomburgk, explorador prussiano do século XIX. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Two Failed Indenture Experiences in Post-emancipation Caribbean: British Guiana (1838-1843) and Danish St. Croix (1863–1868) by Lomarsh Roopnarine

“…The planters tried, particularly in British Guiana, to conceal the mistreatment of the labourers. …”
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Plantae Austro-Americanae.- I: Novae notiones conjunctionesque generis Herrania Plantae Austro-Americanae.- I: Novae notiones conjunctionesque generis Herrania by Schultes Richard Evans

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A new neotropical predaceous midge, Downeshelea deanei, and redescription of Downeshelea guianae (Wirth)(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) by Maria Felippe-Bauer, Adília R. Quintelas, Gustavo R. Spinelli

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Makunaima(s): Poetic of Metamorphosis by Christian Fischgold

“…This article analyzes the trajectory of Makunaima, a myth originally collected by the German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grünberg, among the Taurepang people, on the border between Brazil, Venezuela and British Guiana. We used an interface between anthropology, literary theory, and semiotics of images to reflect on the ways this Amerindian “cultural hero” was adapted to the modernist literature of Mário de Andrade, and to the cinematic aesthetics of Joaquim Pedro de Andrade. …”
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Seapower, Geostrategic Relations, and Islandness: The World War II Destroyers for Bases Deal by Colin Flint

“…Lucia, the Bahamas, and one in British Guiana. The deal highlights how US strategic planners came to see the value of the islands because of their relationality. …”
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Artistic Responses to Crossing the Kālā Pānī by Grace Aneiza Ali

“…Almost a quarter of a million indentured Indian laborers came to British Guiana and would form the foundation of the majority of the Indian population in present-day Guyana. …”
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Evidence on tuberculosis in migrants at Brazil's international borders: A scoping review by Débora de Almeida Soares, Aline Placeres, Ricardo A. Arcêncio, Inês Fronteira

“…The terms “migrants”, “tuberculosis”, “Brazil”, “Uruguay”, “Paraguay”, “Bolivia”, “Peru”, “British Guiana” “English Guiana”, “French Guiana”, “Suriname”, “Venezuela”, “Argentina”, “Colombia” combined with Boolean operators “AND” and “OR” to identified relevant documents. …”
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