Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century - Domination, Contestation, Globalization

Zusatztext to come Informationen zum Autor Rosemarijn Hoefte is Senior Researcher and coordinator of the Caribbean Expert Center at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. Her previous publications include (with Lisa Djasmadi & Hariëtte Mingoen) Migratie en cultureel erfgoed: Verhalen van Javanen in Suriname, Indonesië en Nederland (2010), (with Peter Meel & Hans Renders eds) Tropenlevens: De [post]koloniale biografie (2008), (with co-editor Peter Meel) Twentieth-Century Suriname: Continuities and Discontinuities in a New World Society (2001), and In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname (1998). Klappentext Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class, gender, and ethnic identity over the course of Suriname's modern history, from the capital city of Paramaribo to the country's resource-rich rainforest. to come Zusammenfassung Despite its modest size! the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class! gender! and ethnic identity over the course of Suriname's modern history! from the capital city of Paramaribo to the country's resource-rich rainforest. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Setting the Scene: The Culture of Late Colonial Capitalism, 1900-1940 2. The Growing Role of the State in Colonial Society 3. Discontent, Protest, and Repression in the 1930s 4. Resetting the Scene: Developments, 1940-1975 5. Bauxite Mining in Moengo: Remnants of the Past and Signs of Modernity 6. Economic Collapse, Social Dislocation, and the Military Regime 7. The Development of Paramaribo in the Second Half of the Century 8. Leaving the Scene: A New Century...

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• Authors: R Hoefte, R. Hoefte, Rosemarijn Hoefte
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2013
• EAN: 9781137360120
• ISBN: 978-1-137-36012-0
• No. of pages: 307
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, B, Gender Studies, History, Sociology, Social Inequality, Social History, Social & cultural history, Social & ethical issues, Colonialism & imperialism, auseinandersetzen, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Gender studies, gender groups, History of the Americas, imperialism, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Imperialism and Colonialism, America—History