Decolonising the Caribbean
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Contents
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Language
English
ISBN
90-5356-654-6
Front Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Comparative Context: Fragmentation of the British West Indies and the Remnants of Empire
The Colonial Period
The Failure of the West Indian Federation
Re-engagement: The Overseas Territories
2. The Comparative Context: The French départements d'outre-mer, Grandeur and Civilisation at a Price
The Colonial Period
Decolonisation through Integration
Assimilation à la française
3. The Comparative Context: Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Deadlocks in American Geopolitics
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico’s Status Debate
The U.S.Virgin Islands: Unincorporated Territory
4. Dutch Rule in the Caribbean up until 1940: Careless Colonialism
Failed Exploitation
Colonial Administration
Cultural Divides
5. The Dismantling of the Dutch Empire, 1940-1954
World War II, Powerless Dutch Colonialism and the Atlantic Charter
In the Shadow of Indonesia
The Round-Table Conferences
The Charter of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1954
6. The Failed Attempt at Model Decolonisation, 1954-1975
Exploring the Charter’s Margins
Turning Point: The 1969 Curaçao Revolt
Negotiating the Independence of Suriname
The Antillean Refusal
7. The Perpetuation of the Transatlantic Kingdom since 1975
The Aruban Status Aparte
A New Dutch Agenda for the 1990s
Deadlocks and the Margins of Autonomy
Into the Twenty-First Century
8. Illusions and Benefits of ‘Reciprocal Assistance’: Development Aid
Towards Structural Aid, 1954-1975
Aid to the Antilles and Aruba since 1975: Structural or Finite?
AComparative Perspective
9.A Caribbean Exodus – 177
Prelude, 1954-1973
The Independence of Suriname and the Exodus, 1973-1980
The Antillean Exodus of the 1990s
A Comparative Perspective
10. Cultural Exchange, Proximity and Distance
Dutch Passport, Dutch Language?
Reciprocal Cultural Exchange?
A Comparative Perspective
11. Epilogue
Dutch Caribbean Decolonisation in a Nutshell
Caribbean Decolonisation: a Tentative Balance Sheet
What Kind of Kingdom?
The Future
Notes
Bibliography
Indexes
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