Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day.
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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| Other Authors / Creators: | Scholar, Richard. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015. |
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Globalization, Globality, Globe-Stone
- Introduction
- Part I. The Makings of Modernity
- 1. How Globalization invented Indians in the Caribbean
- 2. The Archipelago Goes Global: Late Glissant and the Early Modern Isolario
- 3. Precocious Modernity: Environmental Change in the Early Caribbean
- 4. 'Slaves' in My Family: French Modes of Servitude in the New World
- 5. Tobacco: The Commodification of the Caribbean and the Origins of Globalization
- Part II. The Complex Present
- 6. The Amaranth Paradigm: Amerindian Indigenous Glocality in the Caribbean
- 7. Paradoxical Encounters: The Essay as a Space of Globalization in Montaigne's 'On the Cannibals' and Maryse Condé's 'O Brave New World'
- 8. Race and Modernity in Hispaniola: Tropical Matters and Development Perspectives
- 9. Aluminium: Globalizing Caribbean Mobilities, Caribbeanizing Global Mobilities
- 10. Local, National, Regional, Global: Glissant and the Postcolonial Manifesto
- 11. Tropical Apocalypse: Globalization and the Caribbean End Times
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Contributors
- Index