Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day

Download or read book Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day written by Eva Sansavior and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Conde'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