Dutch sugar colonies on the Essequibo, Demerara and Berbice rivers that passed to Britain in 1814 and merged into British Guiana.
United as British Guiana in 1831; became independent Guyana in 1966 — its western border with Venezuela still disputed.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Essequibo, Demerara & British Guiana — the shape you scrub through changes in 1616 · 1814 · 1831.
Covers Britain's Guianese and Caribbean colonies within the broad sweep of Latin American history (broad regional context, not Guiana-specific).
A standard single-volume University of California Press survey of modern Latin America, giving the same broad regional context for the citing states and colonies.
Novel spanning 20th-century British Guiana's Rupununi savanna, woven from the author's own Guyanese-Amerindian family history.