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UNINA9910466331203321 |
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Titolo |
Caribbean globalizations, 1492 to the present day / / edited by Eva Sansavior and Richard Scholar |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-78138-492-4 |
1-78138-750-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civilization |
Electronic books. |
Caribbean Area |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Caribbean Globalizations explores the relations between globalization and the Caribbean since 1492, when Columbus first arrived in the region, to the present day. |
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