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White lies and black markets : evading metropolitan authority in colonial Suriname, 1650-1800 /

"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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fatah-Black, Karwan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2015.
Colección:Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 31.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Consulted archives.