Netherlands
(see also Suriname & Dutch West Indies)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
World Guide (Montevideo)
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Kolbert, Elizabeth. “Beyond tolerance,” New Yorker (9/9/02):106-113.
Ward, Diane R. Chap. 1, "Hold back the sea" of her Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly & the Politics of Thirst (NY: Riverhead, 2002).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Blakely, Alison. Blacks in the Dutch World: The Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern Society (Bloomington: Indiana U., 1993).
Essed, Philomena. Everyday Racism: Reports from Women of Two Cultures (Claremont CA: Hunter House, 1990). Cf. Surinamese experience in Netherlands, Black experience in US.
Korf, D.J. Dutch Treat (Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers, 1995). Study of Dutch drug policies.
Lambert, Audrey M. The Making of the Dutch Landscape (London: Academic, 1985).
Moore, Bob. Victims & Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands 1940-1945 (NY: Oxford, 1997).
Rijkswaterstaat. Rising Waters: Impacts of the Greenhouse Effect for the Netherlands (Hague: Ministry of Transport & Public Works, 1991).
Schogt, Henry G. The Curtain: Witness & Memory in Wartime Holland (Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier, 2003).
van Dijk, Teun Adrianus. Racism & the Press (NY: Routledge, 1991). Cf. Britain & Netherlands.
van de Ven, G.P. (eds.) Man-Made Lowlands: History of Water Management & Land Reclamation in the Netherlands (Utrecht: Matrijs, 1993).
van Veen, Johan. Dredge, Drain, Reclaim: The Art of a Nation (Hague: Nijhoff, 1962).
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In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Shouf Shouf Habibi!" [2004], dir. Albert Ter Heerdt, 89m. "Comedy" about Moroccan immigrants trying to make their way in Dutch society.