Twentieth-century Suriname : continuities and discontinuities in a new world society /

Twentieth-century Suriname : continuities and discontinuities in a new world society /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle ; Leiden : KITLV Press, 2001.
Description:	xvi, 365 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Women -- Suriname. Art. Diplomatic relations. Economic history. Economic policy. Politics and government. Popular music. Religion. Social conditions. Surinamese literature. Women. Popular music -- Suriname. Art -- Suriname. Surinamese literature. Suriname -- Economic conditions. Suriname -- Economic policy. Suriname -- Social conditions. Suriname -- Politics and government. Suriname -- Foreign relations. Suriname -- Religion. Suriname.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4856763

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Other authors / contributors:	Hoefte, Rosemarijn. Meel, Peter.
ISBN:	9766370257
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents:

The development of a multiethnic plantation economy
A city and a nation
Continuity and change in a small open economy
Failure of a model decolonisation
Playing politics
Parlimentary structures reconsidered
Not a splendid isolation
Diaspora and transnationalism
Of mimic men and unruly women
The quest for request
Of riches and rhetoric
Treasures, translators and tricksters
Roads to the roots or stuck in the mud?
New sounds from a new nation.