Research Catalog

Title

Paradise overseas : the Dutch Caribbean : colonialism and its transatlantic legacies / Gert Oostindie.

Author

Oostindie, Gert

Publication

Oxford : Macmillan Caribbean, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Oostindie, Gert.

Description

xi, 204 p. : map; 22 cm.

Summary

"Paradise Overseas presents a tour around the main themes of Dutch Caribbean history and its contemporary legacies. In seven essays, author Gert Oostindie paints the broad canvas of this oft-neglected part of the Caribbean and its enduring links to the metropolis. Rather than aiming at a comprehensive narrative, he offers a thematic discussion of issues." "Drawing on his wide expertise in Caribbean and Latin American studies, Gert Oostindie strongly posits this refreshing analysis of the Dutch Caribbean in a comparative framework which will be of interest to historians, anthropologists and political scientists alike. Paradise Overseas is a completely revised and updated version of his widely acclaimed original study, Het paradijs overzee, published in the Netherlands."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Warwick University Caribbean studies

Uniform Title

Warwick University Caribbean studies.

Alternative Title

Dutch Caribbean : colonialism and its transatlantic legacies

Subject

• 1650-1700
• 1700-1800
• 1800-2000
• Decolonization > Netherlands Antilles > History
• Dutch > Caribbean Area > History
• Ethnicity > Netherlands Antilles
• Ethnicity > Suriname
• Nationalism > Netherlands Antilles
• Nationalism > Suriname
• Netherlands Antilles > History
• Suriname > History
• Netherlands > Colonies > History. > America

Genre/Form

History

Note

• An abridged and revised version of the author's Het paradijs overzee, published in Dutch in 1997.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Worlds apart. p. 1.
• 2. Slave, black : human?. p. 24.
• 3. Stubborn plurality. p. 52.
• 4. Dutch model for decolonization. p. 80.
• 5. Uphill nation building. p. 111.
• 6. delusive continuities of the diaspora. p. 136.
• 7. Colonial past, contemporary identities. p. 158.

ISBN

1405057130

OCLC

• 61483105
• SCSB-11900354

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library