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FATAH-BLACK Karwan, White Lies and Black Markets. Evading Metropolitan Authority in Colonial Suriname, 1650-1800, Leiden, Brill Publishers, 2015, 242 pages.ISBN13: 9789004283329E-ISBN: 9789004283350ISSN: 1570-0542Prix : 104€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 metropolitan authorities.By combining the available data on Dutch and North American shipping with accounts of major political and economic developments, the author uncovers a hitherto hidden world of illicit dealings, and convincingly argues that these illegal practices were essential to the development and survival of the colony, and woven into the fabric of the colonial project itself.Table des matièresPreliminary Material1 Introduction2 Origins of Dutch and European Colonization in Suriname3 To These Lands and to Nowhere Else?4 The Ascent of the Surinamer, 1690s–1730s5 Local Supplies of Labor and Provisions6 Controlling the Slave Trade7 Trade with the Heartland of Independence8 ConclusionBibliographyConsulted ArchivesIndexSource : Brill Publishers