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Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day
Richard Scholar
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Description for Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day
Hardcover. Caribbean Globalizations explores the relations between globalization and the Caribbean since 1492, when Columbus first arrived in the region, to the present day. Editor(s): Scholar, Richard; Sansavior, Eva. Num Pages: 281 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3J; DSB; HBJK; JFFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
281
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381519
SKU
V9781781381519
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-16
About Richard Scholar
Eva Sansavior is Lecturer in French at the University of Limerick and the author of Maryse Condé and the Space of Literature (Legenda, 2012). Richard Scholar is Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages at Oriel College, Oxford. His previous books include The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something (OUP, 2005).
Reviews for Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day
Reviews 'Caribbean Globalizations offers rich, innovative and cutting edge contributions to ongoing debates about the necessity to reexamine the Caribbean’s complex authenticities, entangled histories, imagined discourses, multifaceted cultures, and postplantation economic and political systems as they relate to the globalized world... it will be valuable to scholars and students in Globalization Studies, Comparative Caribbean Cultural Studies, Francophone Studies, Diaspora and ... Read more