20th Century Suriname: Continuities and Discontinuities in a New World Society
by Rosemarijn Hoefte
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Suriname is a fascinating yet also little known Caribbean country. Fascinating because a unique variety of lifestyles and group identities has characterized this country from its early beginnings as a European plantation colony, but even more so since the influx of contract laborers from British India and Java in the nineteenth century. Little known because even when attention was focused on the country, particularly following a military coup d'e?tat in 1980, this awareness has contributed show more little to a better understanding of the country's complex developments. In fact, the media have not unveiled but rather covered the essentials of the evolving Suriname society. Combining a broad thematic approach with a focus on long-term developments in Suriname, 20th Century Suriname consists of fourteen chapters that discuss the main trends with respect to major areas of research. Topics such as Surinamese politics and economics, as well as its social, religious, and cultural aspects are covered by the best contemporary specialists on Suriname in the United States, the Netherlands, and Suriname. This volume provides an accessible introduction to Suriname for a general audience, including graduate and undergraduate students, and an authoritative 'state of the art review' for Suriname specialists. show lessTags
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Rosemarijn Hoefte is Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Caribbean Expert Center at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. Her previous publications include (with Lisa Djasmadi and Haritte Mingoen) Migratie en cultureel erfgoed: Verhalen van Javanen in Suriname, Indonesi en show more Nederland (2010), (with coeditors Peter Meel and Hans Renders) Tropenlevens: De [post]koloniale biografie (2008), (with coeditor Peter Meel) Twentieth-Century Suriname: Continuities and Discontinuities in a New World Society (2001), and In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname (1998). show less
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- Economics, Nonfiction, History, Religion & Spirituality, Music, Business
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- 330.9 — Society, government, & culture Economics Jobs & Careers Economic geography and history
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- F2425.2 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America South America Surinam
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