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French Guiana is an overseas department and region of France located on the northeastern coast of South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. The capital of French Guiana is Cayenne, and the largest city is Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. French Guiana has a population of approximately 300,000 people, who are mostly of mixed African and European descent. French Guiana has a tropical climate, with high temperatures and humidity throughout the year. The region is known for its biodiversity, with a large number of plant and animal species found only in French Guiana. French Guiana is considered to be one of the wealthiest and most developed countries in Sout...
French Guiana is an overseas department and region of France located on the northeastern coast of South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. The capital of French Guiana is Cayenne, and the largest city is Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. French Guiana has a population of approximately 300,000 people, who are mostly of mixed African and European descent. French Guiana has a tropical climate, with high temperatures and humidity throughout the year. The region is known for its biodiversity, with a large number of plant and animal species found only in French Guiana. French Guiana is considered to be one of the wealthiest and most developed countries in Sout...
An introduction to French Guiana past and present--the people, the land, natural resources, industry, and culture.
Laminated identification guide illustrating the appearance and behaviors of 8 species of extant nonhuman primates (tamarins, capuchins, sakis, Guianan black spider monkey, and Guianan red howler monkey) in Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
In 1946, after more than three hundred years as French colonies, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana were transformed into "overseas departments" of France, equal and identical in theory to any French department. This book assesses the effects of almost half a century of political assimilation into France and asks to what extent the high standard of living enjoyed by French West Indians today has been offset by losses on the political, cultural, and psychological levels. The book, whose contributors come from the French West Indies themselves and from Britain and Jamaica, brings a variety of perspectives to bear on what to many observers will seem a paradox in the postcolonial age: three West Indian societies that are now part of Europe and whose desire to remain French far outweighs- or so it seems- their desire to be West Indian.
Explores the geography, history, arts, religion, and everyday life in French Guiana.
The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen—the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups.
French Guiana lies on the north coast of South America, with Suriname to the west and Brazil to the south and east. French occupation began in the early seventeenth century. After brief periods of Dutch, English and Portuguese rule, the territory was confirmed as French in 1817. The colony steadily declined, after a short period of prosperity in the 1850s as a result of the discovery of gold. French Guiana, including the notorious Devil's Island, was used as a penal colony until 1937, and the territory became an Overseas Department of France in 1946. This bibliography, containing some 500 entries, brings together, for the first time, the most important French and English publications concerning French Guiana.
Briefly surveys the history, land, natural resources, government, culture, and people of the three Guianas--Surinam, Guyana, and French Guiana.