Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power

Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, here tells the story of British Guiana''s struggle for independence. At the center of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony''s first premier following the institution of universal adult suffrage in 1953.

Informed by the first use of many British, U.S., and Guyanese archival sour...