Contents -- Tables, Maps, and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Garden City of the West Indies -- 3 Cesspool City: Sanitarianism in Colonial Georgetown -- 4 Order and Festivity in Georgetown -- 5 Hucksters, Markets, and the Struggle to Control Public Space -- 6 Hawkers and the Milk Industry -- 7 Riot and the Struggle to Control the Street -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Throughout the post-slavery Caribbean, former slaves and masters fought to determine the shape of the new free societies. Urban areas - with their growing populations and vibrant Afro-creole culture - were often the sites of these struggles. In Order and Place in a Colonial City Juanita De Barros explores the conflicting visions of public areas held by local political and economic elites and by non-white urban poor in Georgetown, British Guiana, demonstrating that the period of study was marked by class and racial tensions as the social and political landscape of the city changed significantly
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-248) and index
