Centring the periphery [[electronic resource] ] : chaos, order, and the ethnohistory of Dominica / / Patrick L. Baker

• Autore: Baker Patrick L
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994
• Descrizione fisica: xx, 251 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 972.9841
• Soggetto topico: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General
• Soggetto geografico: Dominica History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-240) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables and Maps -- Preface -- Theoretical Questions -- Indigenous Peoples and Their Contact Experience -- European Discovery and Settlement -- Formal Colonization: British Annexation, French Conquest, and Slave Revolts -- Slavery and Emancipation -- A Dominican Peasantry -- The Rise of the Mulatto Élite -- Capitalizing a Subsistence Economy -- Democracy: Bringing Decision Making Home -- Four Hundred and Eighty-Five Years Later: Independence? -- Some Additional Facts on Dominica -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The concept of "centring" is used to mean "ordering the world," and Baker links this to ideas in chaos theory, which views order and disorder as mutually generative phenomena rather than static antinomies. Thus strategies to control disorder and create and maintain order may suddenly precipitate change. Baker's application of these theories to an island nation that has received little detailed attention in the past makes this a highly original work, as does his holistic, post-modern perspective. In addition to presenting a sensitive historical analysis, he confronts the dilemma of meaning in peripheral situations and the experience of dependency in the world system. Centring the Periphery is germane to understanding the majority of the world's people and makes a significant contribution to the study of society in developing nations.
• Titolo autorizzato: Centring the periphery
• ISBN: 0-7735-6439-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782733403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II