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History & Culture

The Portuguese of Guyana

A Study in Culture and Conflict

A scholarly study of the Madeiran-descended Portuguese community in Guyana — their culture and the tensions of colonial society — and the fuller successor to Menezes’s earlier “Scenes from the History of the Portuguese in Guyana”.

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Author
Mary Noel Menezes
Edition year
1992
Publisher
Anand Press
Language
English

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