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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466331203321

Titolo

Caribbean globalizations, 1492 to the present day / / edited by Eva Sansavior and Richard Scholar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2015

ISBN

1-78138-492-4

1-78138-750-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

972.902

Soggetti

Civilization

Electronic books.

Caribbean Area

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Prologue:  Globalization, Globality, Globe-Stone; Introduction; I Globalizations in the Making; 1 The Archipelago Goes Global: Late Glissant and the Early Modern Isolario; 2 How Globalization Invented Indians in the Caribbean; 3 Precocious Modernity: Environmental Change in the Early Caribbean; 4 'Slaves' in My Family: French Modes of Servitude in the New World; 5 Paradoxical Encounters: The Essay as a Space of Globalization in Montaigne's 'Des Cannibales' and Maryse CondeĢ's 'O Brave New World'; II The Complex Present

6 Tobacco: The Commodification of the Caribbean and the Origins of Globalization7 The Amaranth Paradigm: Amerindian Indigenous Glocality in the Caribbean; 8 Aluminium: Globalizing Caribbean Mobilities, Caribbeanizing Global Mobilities; 9 Race and Modernity in Hispaniola: Tropical Matters and Development Perspectives ; 10 Local, National, Regional, Global: Glissant and the Postcolonial Manifesto; 11 Tropical Apocalypse: Globalization and the Caribbean End Times; Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Caribbean Globalizations explores the relations between globalization and the Caribbean since 1492, when Columbus first arrived in the region, to the present day.