...Dorothy L. Keur Suriname. Geboorte van een nieuw volk . By Bruijning C. F. A. Dr. and Lichtveld Lou . Amsterdam , 1957 . Wetenschappelijke Uitgeverij N. V . Photographs . Pp. 164 . Cloth. $18.50 . Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...

... colonies in the Caribbean basin. Of these, the 34,000 South Asians and 33,000 Javanese who went to Dutch Guiana (now Suriname) between 1873 and 1939 are the subject of Rosemarijn Hoefte’s critical examination. Although the author is aware of the larger context of this labor movement, her study is narrowly...

...Rosemarijn Hoefte Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles: An Annotated English-Language Bibliography . By Brown Enid . Metuchen : Scarecrow Press , 1992 . Appendixes. Index . xvii , 275 pp. Cloth . $32.50 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Bibliographies...

...Charles D. Ameringer The Trouble in Suriname, 1975-1993 . By Dew Edward M. . Westport : Praeger , 1994 . Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xv , 243 pp. Cloth . $55.00 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Suriname is a small country that achieved...

...Rosemarljn Hoefte The Dutch in the Caribbean and in Suriname 1791/5–1942 . By Goalinga Cornelis C. . Assen, Netherlands : Van Gorcum , 1990 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 812 pp. Cloth . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press...

...Holly Snyder Creole Jews: Negotiating Community in Colonial Suriname . By Vink Wieke . Leiden : KITLV Press (The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) , 2010 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 306 pp. Paper...

... his inability to marry his sable sweetheart or carry her and their child to Europe) conveniently glosses over two realities: Stedman had actually lived with Joanna under the form of common-law union called a “Suriname marriage,” and the teenage Joanna had originally been proffered and sold to Stedman...

...Robert Moore Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America from the Years 1772 to 1777. Elucidating the History of that Country & Describing its Productions, viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Trees, Shrubs, Fruits...

... decolonization in the former colonies of Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba, and that of the rest of the Caribbean. Suriname, here, is considered to be part of the Caribbean—a point made by several authors, both Dutch and Surinamese, over the past two decades. Despite the book’s comparative outset...

... an individual frame of reference. Whether by accident or design, the peoples of North America and Suriname are accorded the distinction of three essays each. Gert Oostindie and Alex Van Stipriaan jointly focus on cultural formation in the traditional “core” zone of the slave plantation. Indeed, they implicitly...

... this era, Dutch colonial and agricultural societies developed in the Curaçaon islands, the Leeward Antilles, Surinam, Berbice, Essequibo, and Demerara. In addition, Goslinga discusses the Dutch in West Africa and their involvement in the Caribbean slave trade and (illegal) intra-Caribbean shipping (the so...

... the authoritarian politics and institutionalized violence frequently found in developing countries. Young and Phillips, however, dare to be different, contending that the CARICOM nations—along with the former Dutch colony of Surinam—are indeed vulnerable to and have in recent years displayed growing evidence...

... to face institutional as well as informal hostilities. Thus they do not necessarily use obeah as a term of reference or self-identification: this depends on context and the circumstances at hand, as the case studies in this volume so powerfully demonstrate. For example, the Maroons of Surinam and French...

... a mass of evidence from original sources on the discrimination against free blacks and mulattoes on the part of the state and the church as well as on the limitation on manumission. H. Hoetink’s discussion of race, color, and slavery in Surinam and Curaçao is the most comparative of all the essays since...

... acquired immunities to either or both diseases and those with little to no immunity (p. 4). As mosquitoes cruised the rice fields of Surinam and swarmed the swamps of the American South in pursuit of human blood, residents of these regions soon came to understand that slaves from Africa seemed to endure...

... to Surinam as well as their metropolitan counterpoints from New York to Amsterdam, it is a genuinely Caribbean work (which is to say global). Conceptually, meanwhile, the essays reflect sensitivity to the predicament of former empires struggling to incorporate excolonial subjects of color, and to the savvy...

... determined. A comparison with Dutch Surinam, and an examination of plantation society in Curaçao itself, where conditions led to the 1795 slave revolt, reveals the existence of some harsher master-slave relationships in the Dutch slave regime. Rather, the general character of slavery in Curaçao was governed...

... and Surinam, or in Cuba and Puerto Rico. The attempt to trace linear relationship in lawmaking or to explain the inordinate influence of the Roman law tradition over American influences severely distorts the local circumstances and the material conditions of society, custom, and law, especially...

... World expands on the revelation of seventeenth- and early eighteenth- century Saramaka oral history in First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People (1983), which traced the development of a Surinam maroon community from the moment its slave founders determined to take refuge...

...-speaking republics plus Brazil, Haiti, and Puerto Rico (but excluding all other French, Dutch and English speaking areas of the Caribbean plus Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana) and covering various aspects of the history, geography, industry and culture of each of the countries included in some 1,600...