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

• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.902
• Soggetto topico: Civilization
• Soggetto geografico: Caribbean Area
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): SansaviorEva; ScholarRichard
• 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 Condé'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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Caribbean globalizations, 1492 to the present day
• ISBN: 1-78138-492-4; 1-78138-750-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910466331203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II