Set to be launch on Thursday [July 19, 2018] is ‘A Survey of Guyanese History’, a book by Prof. Emeritus, Winston McGowan under the patronage of H.E. President David Granger. The book launch will take place at The Baridi Benab, State House, Main Street, Georgetown.
Prof. Emeritus, Winston McGowan
Dr James Rose in his Foreword described the book as “the sum total of the historical exploration of a Guyanese scholar, who over the span of a fruitful academic career, applied historical methodology and passion to a wide range of issues, topics and subject areas germane to a proper understanding of aspects of the society in which he lived and worked…This collection has been devised to offer an overview of current topics in the field of history, education, nationalism, labour, biographies and cricket.”
President Granger has supported this venture from the very beginning, allowing this much-needed work of history to become a reality.
Prof. Mc Gowan is one of Guyana’s leading historians. In October 1970 he joined the Department of History of the University of Guyana as a lecturer and remained there until his retirement in August 2008. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1980 and Professor in 2000 and spent his last six years there as the second occupant of the prestigious Walter Rodney Chair in History. In 2010 he was among the initial group of three Emeritus Professors recognized by the University, his current position. Dr Mc Gowan has received several other honours from the University and is also the recipient of two national awards from the Government of Guyana primarily for his contribution as an educator, an Arrow of Achievement (A.A.) in 2003 and a Cacique Crown of Honour (C.C.H) In non-academic life he is prominent as a cricket commentator and as a minister of a Pentecostal Christian congregation in Georgetown.
