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Karwan Fatah-Black White lies and black markets
evading metropolitan authority in colonial Suriname, 1650-1800
Summary: 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 context of its connections to the rest of the Atlantic world. These economic and migratory links assured the colony's survival, but also created many incentives to evade the mercantilistically inclined...
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Engels | 226 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2015
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