Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century

R. Hoefte

ISBN 10: 1349471836 / ISBN 13: 9781349471836

Published by Palgrave Macmillan Nov 2015, 2015

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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.Palgrave Macmillan, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 312 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Nov 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349471836
• ISBN 13: 9781349471836
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 17D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 455 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).