Author | Goslinga, Cornelis Ch. author |
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Title | A Short History of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam [electronic resource] / by Cornelis Ch. Goslinga |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1979 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9289-4 |
Descript | X, 198 p. 1 illus. online resource |
I. The Curaรงao Islands. The Inhabitants -- II. Historical Background and Discovery -- III. The Spanish Period -- IV. The Dutch Conquest -- V. Curaรงao as War Base -- VI. The Struggle for Survival -- VII. The Last Dutch Stand -- VIII. The End of the Seventeenth Century -- IX. The Eighteenth Century -- X. The English Interregnum -- XI. The Dutch Leeward Islands in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- XII. The Wild Coast from pre-Columbian Times to 1621 -- XIII. Dutch Colonizing Efforts on the Wild Coast -- XIV. Surinam under the Chartered Society -- XV. Surinam during the English Interregnum -- XVI. Aspects of Dutch Colonization -- XVII. The Curaรงao Islands in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- XVIII. The Curaรงao Islands Under Paramaribo -- XIX. The Curaรงao Islands from 1845 to 1900 -- XX. The Emancipation of the Curaรงao Slaves -- XXI. Relations Between Curaรงao and Venezuela Toward the End of the Nineteenth Century -- XXII. Oil Comes to the Curaรงao Islands -- XXIII. The Curaรงao Islands From World War I to World War II -- XXIV. The Dutch Leeward Islands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- XXV. Surinam in the Nineteenth Century -- XXVI. The Early Twentieth Century in Surinam -- XXVII. Political Developments in the Dutch West Indies in the Twentieth Century -- XXVIII. Economic Development of the Dutch Antilles and Surinam -- XXIX. Society and Culture in the Netherlands West Indies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- General index