Search Results for Dutch Antilles

...Chelsea Schields Abstract This article examines the intertwined arguments for sexual revolution and decolonization in the Dutch Atlantic in the 1960s and 1970s. In this period, Antillean activists in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles celebrated aspects of the Cuban Revolution and the US...

... and early 1970s radical youth in the Dutch Antilles drew on contemporary movements, including the Cuban Revolution and the black freedom struggle in the United States, to simultaneously demand sexual revolution, racial equality, and decolonization. In a surprising counterpoint to the revolutionary...

... “idle-poor” Spaniards while increasing the coercive sequestration of subal- tern populations overseas.4 The decline of Dutch hegemony in the capitalist world-economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries produced a number of political dislocations and economic opportunities...

... references a strange word, filibustero, first used in Dutch and English to refer to banditry (fraybüter, freebooter) in the late sixteenth century, before entering Span- ish in the seventeenth century as the word for pirate, particularly in the Caribbean...