White Lies and Black Markets - Evading Metropolitan Authority in Colonial Suriname, 1650-1800

In this volume, Fatah-Black untangles the ways in which metropolitan authorities were defied and evaded in the process of making Suriname a productive plantation colony between 1650 and 1800.

About the author

Karwan Fatah-Black, Ph.D. (2013), Leiden University, is a researcher and lecturer at that university. He has published on early modern maritime, colonial and Dutch history.

Product details

• Authors: Karwan Fatah-Black
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2015
• EAN: 9789004283329
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28332-9
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Atlantic World
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous