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"Paradise Overseas" presents a tour around the main themes of Dutch Caribbean history and its contemporary legacies. Drawing on wide expertise in Caribbean and Latin American studies, Gert Oostindie strongly posits a refreshing analysis of the Dutch Caribbean in a comparative framework which will be of interest to historians, anthropologists and political scientists alike. Rather than aiming at a comprehensive narrative, he offers a thematic discussion of topics such as the contrasts between Dutch colonization in the Americas and Asia; African slavery, Asian indentured labour and the shaping of plural societies in the Dutch Caribbean; the major contrasts between and within the six Antillean islands and Suriname; the different trajectories of decolonisation and their subsequent costs and benefits; and the changing significance of ethnicity and national identity both in the Dutch Caribbean and its diaspora.

Migration and its legacies in the Dutch colonial world / Gert Oostindie -- Heritage trails: international cultural heritage policies in a European perspective / Anouk Fienieg ... [et al.] -- 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 -- Indentured labour in the Dutch colonial empire, 1800-1940 / Thio Termorshuizen -- Population figures / Hanneke Lommerse.