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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- First Words -- Chapter 1. Smoke Signals -- Chapter 2. Early Encounters with Cultural Difference -- Chapter 3. College Days -- Chapter 4. Lévi-Strauss -- Chapter 5. Andalusia: Silencing the Past -- Chapter 6. Back to Harvard -- Chapter 7. Suriname in the Sixties -- Chapter 8. Yale (1969-1974) -- Chapter 9. Johns Hopkins I (1974-1978) -- Chapter 10. Studying to Be Singular (1978-1992) -- Chapter 11. Johns Hopkins II (1979-1983) -- Chapter 12. Things Fall Apart (1983-1985) -- Chapter 13. Down and Out in Paris (1985-1987)

Engagement -- Mentalities -- Policies and governance : conciliation and coercion -- Policies and governance : protection -- Policies and governance : racial amalgamation -- Law and sovereignty -- Violence and the coming of colonial order -- The emergence of settler politics -- Legacies in indigenous politics -- Legacies in imperial culture.

Rainforest Warriorsis a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of lifepart of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within its national territory, and the most forest per person, of any country in the world. During the 1990s, its government began awarding extensive logging and mining concessions to multinational companies from China, Indonesia, Canada, and elsewhere. Saramaka Maroons, the descendants of self-liberated African slaves who had lived in that rainforest for more than 300 years, resisted, bringing their complaints to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2008, when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered its landmark judgment in their favor, their efforts to protect their threatened rainforest were thrust into the international spotlight. Two leaders of the struggle to protect their way of life, Saramaka Headcaptain Wazen Eduards and Saramaka law student Hugo Jabini, were awarded the Goldman Prize for the Environment (often referred to as the environmental Nobel Prize), under the banner of "A New Precedent for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples."Anthropologist Richard Price, who has worked with Saramakas for more than forty years and who participated actively in this struggle, tells the gripping story of how Saramakas harnessed international human rights law to win control of their own piece of the Amazonian forest and guarantee their cultural survival

A sustained, radical new interpretation of British history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, by a senior social historian confronting and questioning dominant interpretations. Scholars and students will find much of interest in this elegantly written and lucidly organised study