Twentieth-century Suriname : continuities and discontinuities in a new world society /
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Imprint: | Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle ; Leiden : KITLV Press, 2001. |
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Description: | xvi, 365 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4856763 |
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.