Dutch colonialism, migration and cultural heritage / / edited by Gert Oostindie.

• TeilnehmendeR: Oostindie, Gert.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : KITLV,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 360 p. :; ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Migration flows in the former Dutch colonial orbit created an intricate web connecting the Netherlands to Africa, Asia and the Americas; Africa to the Americas and to Asia; in the nineteenth century Asia to the Americas, with, in the post-Second World War period, the direction of migration shifting to the Netherlands. Some of these migrations were voluntary, others were forced; they helped to create colonial societies that were never typically Dutch, but did have Dutch characteristics. Power imbalance, ethnic differences and creolization characterized the cultural configuration of these colonial societies. This book, with contributions by a number of Dutch scholars, provides state-of-the-art discussions on these migration histories. In addition, it presents reflections on the ways this past and its repercussions are remembered (or forgotten, or actively silenced) throughout the former colonial empire. This part of the book is embedded in the wider contemporary debate about the contested concept of cultural heritage, and about the possibility of meaningful cultural heritage policies in a post-colonial world.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gert Costindie -- Migration and its legacies in the Dutch colonial world / Gert Oostindie -- Heritage trails: International cultural heritage policies in a European perspective / Anouk Fienieg , Robert Parthesius , Brittany Groot , Rivke Jaffe , Sjoerd van der Linde and Pauline van Roosmalen -- Historical memory and national canons / Gert Oostindie -- European migration in the Dutch sphere / Gijs Kruijtzer -- Patterns of slave trading and slavery in the Dutch colonial world, 1596-1863 / Rik van Welie -- ndentured labour in the Dutch colonial empire, 1800-1940 / Thio Termorshuizen -- Population figures / Hanneke Lommerse -- Index of geographical names / Gert Costindie -- Index of personal names / Gert Costindie -- General index / Gert Costindie -- About the authors / Gert Costindie.