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Frontier Society

A Social Analysis of the History of Surinam

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  • © 1971

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  1. R. A. J. Lier
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Introduction

    • R. A. J. van Lier
    Pages 1-18

  3. The “Plantation of Surinam”

    • R. A. J. van Lier
    Pages 19-37

  4. The White Masters

    • R. A. J. van Lier
    Pages 38-50

  5. The Settlement as a Slave Colony

    • R. A. J. van Lier
    Pages 51-84

  6. The Jewish Community

    • R. A. J. van Lier
    Pages 85-95

  7. The Free Mulattoes and Negroes and the Position of the Manumitted

    • R. A. J. van Lier
    Pages 96-116

  8. The Slaves

    • R. A. J. van Lier
    Pages 117-176

  9. Emancipation and the Period of State Supervision

    • R. A. J. van Lier
    Pages 177-188

  10. Government Policy and the Character of the Period after 1863

    • R. A. J. van Lier
    Pages 189-216

  11. The Economic and Social Changes after Emancipation

    • R. A. J. van Lier
    Pages 217-297

  12. State Organization and Political Tensions

    • R. A. J. van Lier
    Pages 298-378

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 379-441
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About this book

The Dutch version of Frontier Society (Samenleving in een Grens­ gebied) first appeared in 1949. A second Dutch edition of this work has been published in 1971, in the text of which a number of minor improve­ ments have been made and a few passages added here and there, though on the whole the work has remained unchanged. The English translation presented here is of the Dutch text for the second impression. It is more than twenty years since the book was first published. There have been no publications since which have induced me to introduce major corrections or additions to the original work, and although further research in the Public Record Office in The Hague has brought more material to light, this did not give cause for altering the picture presented or the examples given either. This is due in the first place to the character of the work, being an attempt at presenting a structural and historical analysis of the development of an exploitation colony based on slavery into the type of society found in many parts of the world outside Europe in the period preceding decolonization. But it is probably also a consequence of the paucity of historical publications about a country on which there is such a wealth of material available.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Frontier Society

  • Book Subtitle: A Social Analysis of the History of Surinam

  • Authors: R. A. J. Lier

  • Series Title: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0647-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1971

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-0156-9Published: 01 January 1971

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-0647-2Published: 01 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 441

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general

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