Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Rosemarijn Hoefte

   Pages 1-26

3. Setting the Scene: The Culture of Late Colonial Capitalism 1900–1940

   • Rosemarijn Hoefte

   Pages 27-50

4. The Growing Role of the State in Late Colonial Society

   • Rosemarijn Hoefte

   Pages 51-67

5. Discontent, Protest, and Repression in the 1930s

   • Rosemarijn Hoefte

   Pages 69-90

6. Resetting the Scene: Developments 1940–1975

   • Rosemarijn Hoefte

   Pages 91-112

7. Bauxite Mining in Moengo: Remnants of the Past and Signs of Modernity

   • Anouk de Koning

   Pages 113-132

8. Economic Collapse, Social Dislocation, and the Military Regime

   • Rosemarijn Hoefte

   Pages 133-158

9. The Development of Paramaribo in the Second Half of the Century

   • Hebe Verrest

   Pages 159-185

10. Leaving the Scene: A New Century

    • Rosemarijn Hoefte

    Pages 187-218

11. Back Matter

    Pages 219-294

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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.

• 20th century
• capitalism
• culture
• gender
• globalization
• history
• history of literature
• identity
• Modern History
• society
• twentieth century

to come

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).

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