Colonial legacies and postcolonial conflicts in Guyana / Kate Quinn -- Democracy and political culture in Suriname / Hans Ramsoedh -- The dichotomy of universalism and particularism in French Guiana / Fred Réno and Bernard Phipps -- Politics and ethnicity in the Guianas / Steve Garner --...

1. ‘Where the Sandalwood Is Born’: East Timor until the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 2. The Two Last Centuries of Portuguese Domination -- 3. The Indonesian Occupation -- 4. The Economy under Occupation -- 5. Launching a New State -- 6. Conclusions