Edward Dew: 2 books
The Difficult Flowering of Surinam
Ethnicity and Politics in a Plural Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In the months immediately preceding Surinam's independence, November 25, 1975, warning signals went up on both sides of the Atlantic. This small, ethnically plural society was torn by severe political conflict. Elections in November 1973 had brought an end to political collaboration between Creoles...
Politics in the Altiplano
The Dynamics of Change in Rural Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The department of Puno in southern Peru is an area oriented to livestock and agricultural production, peopled by an Indian peasant mass and a dominant minority of culturally Westernized mestizos. A small but growing hybrid group, the cholos, bridged the cultural gap and collaborated with dissident...