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White lies and black markets : evading metropolitan authority in colonial Suriname, 1650-1800
- Title
- White lies and black markets : evading metropolitan authority in colonial Suriname, 1650-1800 / by Karwan Fatah-Black.
- Author
- Fatah-Black, Karwan.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 226 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In White Lies and Black Markets, Fatah-Black offers a new account of the colonization of Suriname--one of the major European plantation colonies on the Guiana Coast--in the period between 1650-1800. While commonly portrayed as an isolated tropical outpost, this study places the colony in the context of its connections to the rest of the Atlantic world. These economic and migratory links assured the colony's survival, but also created many incentives to evade the mercantilistically inclined metropolitan authorities. By combining the available data on Dutch and North American shipping with accounts of major political and economic developments, the author uncovers a hitherto hidden world of illicit dealings, and convincingly argues that these illegal practices were essential to the development and survival of the colony, and woven into the fabric of the colonial project itself"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830 ; volume 31
- Uniform Title
- Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 31.
- Subjects
- North America
- Shipping
- Suriname
- Economic development
- Black market
- Immigrants
- Netherlands
- North America > Commerce > Suriname
- Commerce
- To 1814
- Suriname > Colonization
- Shipping > Suriname > History
- Colonization
- History
- Suriname > Commerce > North America
- Suriname > Commerce > Netherlands
- Economic development > Suriname > History
- Black market > Suriname > History
- Immigrants > Suriname > History
- Politics and government
- Suriname > Politics and government > To 1814
- Netherlands > Commerce > Suriname
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.
- Contents
- Origins of Dutch and European colonization in Suriname -- To these lands and to nowhere else? -- The ascent of the Surinamer, 1690s-1730s -- Local supplies of labor and provisions -- Controlling the slave trade -- Trade with the heartland of independence.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-6598
- ISBN
- 9789004283329 (hardback : acid-free paper)
- 9004283323 (hardback : acid-free paper)
- 9789004283350 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015004854
- OCLC
- 900685672
- Author
- Fatah-Black, Karwan.
- Title
- White lies and black markets : evading metropolitan authority in colonial Suriname, 1650-1800 / by Karwan Fatah-Black.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830 ; volume 31Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 31.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1814
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-6598