Caribbean globalizations, 1492 to the present day /

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Imprint:	Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 274 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Civilization. Caribbean Area -- History. Caribbean Area -- Civilization. Caribbean Area. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13511477

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Other authors / contributors:	Sansavior, Eva, editor. Scholar, Richard, editor. UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online).
ISBN:	9781781384923 1781384924 9781781387504 1781387508 9781781381519 1781381518
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Caribbean globalizations explores the relations between globalization and the Caribbean since 1492 -- when Columbus first arrived in the region -- to the present day. It aims to help change prevalent ways of thinking, not only about the Caribbean archipelago as a complex field of historical enquiry and cultural production, but also about the nature of globalization. It argues that the region has long been -- and remains -- a theatre of conflict between, as well as a site of emergence for, different forms of globalization. It thereby offers the opportunity to focus research and debate across the interdisciplinary spectrum by reflecting upon and reimagining the idea of globalization in a specifically Caribbean context. It does so at a time when the Caribbean is urgently rethinking its own identity and place in a world where the Western economic of globalization is more in question than ever. Prefaced by the distinguished novelist Patrick Chamoiseau and containing essays by Charles Forsdick, Christopher L. Miller, Patricia Seed, and Mimi Sheller, among other leading scholars within the humanities and social sciences, this book will be required reading for those working on the Caribbean from a variety of perspectives."--
Other form:	Print version: Caribbean globalizations, 1492 to the present day. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015 9781781381519

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Globalization, globality, globe-stone / Patrick Chamoiseau
Introduction / Eva Sansavior and Richard Scholar
The archipelago goes global: late Glissant and the early modern isolario / Richard Scholar
How globalization invented Indians in the Caribbean / Patricia Seed
Precocious modernity: environmental change in the early Caribbean / Philip D. Morgan
'Slaves' in my family: French modes of servitude in the New World / Christopher L. Miller
Paradoxical encounters: the essay as a space of globalization in Montaigne's 'Des cannibales' and Maryse Condé's "O brave new world' / Eva Sansavior
Tobacco: the commodification of the Caribbean and the origins of globalization / Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert
The amaranth paradigm: Amerindian indigenous glocality in the Caribbean / Judith Misrahi-Barak
Aluminium: globalizing Caribbean mobilities, Caribbeanizing global mobilities / Mimi Sheller
Race and modernity in Hispaniola: tropical matters and development perspectives / David Howard
Local, national, regional, global: Glissant and the postcolonial manifesto / Charles Forsdick
Tropical apocalypse: globalization and the Caribbean end times / Martin Munro.

Caribbean globalizations, 1492 to the present day /

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