Centring the Periphery

Download or read book Centring the Periphery written by Patrick L. Baker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Baker's post-modern approach uses ideas from chaos theory and world systems theory to interpret the prehistory and history of Dominica. During its prehistory Dominica served as an occasional stepping-stone for small-scale, independent foraging and horticultural peoples migrating up the Antillean arc to the larger islands in the north. Its discovery by Europeans brought it into a social and economic constellation that was constructed and orchestrated largely from the metropolitan centre. Centring the Periphery is the unfolding story of the struggle of the Dominican people to create and order a world that is controlled from outside.