A Short History of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam

I. The Curaçao Islands. The Inhabitants.- II. Historical Background and Discovery.- III. The Spanish Period.- IV. The Dutch Conquest.- V. Curaçao as War Base.- VI. The Struggle for Survival.- VII. The Last Dutch Stand.- VIII. The End of the Seventeenth Century.- IX. The Eighteenth Century.- X. The English Interregnum.- XI. The Dutch Leeward Islands in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.- XII. The Wild Coast from pre-Columbian Times to 1621.- XIII. Dutch Colonizing Efforts on the Wild Coast.- XIV. Surinam under the Chartered Society.- XV. Surinam during the English Interregnum.- XVI. Aspects of Dutch Colonization.- XVII. The Curaçao Islands in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.- XVIII. The Curaçao Islands Under Paramaribo.- XIX. The Curaçao Islands from 1845 to 1900.- XX. The Emancipation of the Curaçao Slaves.- XXI. Relations Between Curaçao and Venezuela Toward the End of the Nineteenth Century.- XXII. Oil Comes to the Curaçao Islands.- XXIII. The Curaçao Islands From World War I to World War II.- XXIV. The Dutch Leeward Islands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.- XXV. Surinam in the Nineteenth Century.- XXVI. The Early Twentieth Century in Surinam.- XXVII. Political Developments in the Dutch West Indies in the Twentieth Century.- XXVIII. Economic Development of the Dutch Antilles and Surinam.- XXIX. Society and Culture in the Netherlands West Indies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.- General index.