| Research will involve exploring public and private archives and libraries, both in the Netherlands and in Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. Moreover, oral history will yield ample and relevant information. In the various parts of the Kingdom and in Suriname willing informants are expected to be consulted. The research is to result in one volume, which will in fact comprise two parts, one on Suriname and one on the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. Undoubtedly the colonial context and the administrative structures, either well established or malfunctioning, will show resemblances to quite some extent. However, the histories in the former colonies are bound to differ greatly, adding to this the, perhaps at times idiosyncratic, histories of the individual islands. The histories will be joined into one volume, in which the introduction and the epilogue will glue the different parts together, highlighting resemblances and differences, their common structures and distinctive exclusivity. |
