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Duell Sloan and Pearce, An Essential Book [Published Date: 1943]. Hardcover, 225 pp. War Edition, first edition. Good / NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing and soiling with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Map on endpapers. Black and white illustrations. An historical, economical, and political survey of the Netherlands West Indies published during World War II, which acknowledges the important role played by the refineries of Curacao and Aruba in supplying a large percentage of the high-octane gasoline used by the Royal Air Force as well as the bauxite mines of Surinam as the source of much of the aluminum ore used by the war industries of the United States. Contents include: THE SETTING : Curagao - The Leeward Islands, Curagao - The Windward Islands; Surinam; THE PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT : Discovery and Settlement in the Carribbean Area: 1492-1650; Island Entrepots; The Rise of Surinam; The Slave Insurrections; DECLINE IN THE CARIBBEAN ; Forty Years of War. One Hundred Years of Neglect: 1816-1915; THE RENAISSANCE OF THE DUTCH TERRITORIES - The Oil Refineries of Curagao and Aruba; Rauxite and Agriculture in Surinam; TODAY AND TOMORROW; Government; Effects of the War; Netherlands America and the Future; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index