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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fatah-Black, Karwan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2015.
Series:Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 31.
Subjects:
To 1814
Black market > Suriname > History.
Shipping > Suriname > History.
Immigrants > Suriname > History.
Economic development > Suriname > History.
Marché noir > Suriname > Histoire.
Développement économique > Suriname > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
Black market
Colonization
Commerce
Economic development
Immigrants
Politics and government
Shipping
Suriname > Colonization.
Suriname > Commerce > Netherlands.
Suriname > Commerce > North America.
Netherlands > Commerce > Suriname.
North America > Commerce > Suriname.
Suriname > Politics and government > To 1814.
Pays-Bas > Commerce > Suriname.
Amérique du Nord > Commerce > Suriname.
Suriname > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1814.
Netherlands
North America
Suriname
Suriname (land)
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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