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Twentieth-century Suriname : continuities and discontinuities in a new world society / edited by Rosemarijn Hoefte and Peter Meel.

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Twentieth-century Suriname : continuities and discontinuities in a new world society / edited by Rosemarijn Hoefte and Peter Meel.
Publication
Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle ; Leiden : KITLV Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Hoefte, Rosemarijn.
  • Meel, Peter.
Description
xvi, 365 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
20th century Suriname
Subject
  • Women > Suriname
  • Popular music > Suriname
  • Art > Suriname
  • Surinamese literature
  • Maatschappij
  • Suriname > Economic conditions
  • Suriname > Economic policy
  • Suriname > Social conditions
  • Suriname > Politics and government
  • Suriname > Foreign relations
  • Suriname > Religion
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-349) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9766370257
  • 9789766370251
  • 9067181811 (KITLV : pbk.)
  • 9789067181815 (KITLV : pbk.)
OCLC
  • 48928025
  • SCSB-10757247
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Harvard Library