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• Title:The nutmeg's curse : parables for a planet in crisis / Amitav Ghosh.
  
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• Variant Title:Parables for a planet in crisis
  
• Author/Creator:Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- author.
  
• Published/Created:Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: JC359 .G464 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-15-2025
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Imperialism.
  Climatic changes.
  Equality.
  Social history.
  
• Medical Subjects: Climate Change.
  Social Conditions.
  
• Genre/Form:Informational works.
  
• Description:339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This argument is set within a broader narrative about human entanglements with botanical matter-spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels-and the continuities that bind human history with these earthly materials. Ghosh also writes explicitly against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, and international immigration debates, among other pressing issues, framing these ongoing crises in a new way by showing how the colonialist extractive mindset is directly connected to the deep inequality we see around us today"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-325) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780226815459 (cloth)
  0226815455 (cloth)
  9780226815466 (e-book)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Lamp Falls
  2. "Burn Everywhere Their Dwellings"
  3. "The Fruits of the Nutmeg Have Died"
  4. Terraforming
  5. "We Shall All Be Gone Shortly"
  6. Bonds of Earth
  7. Monstrous Gaia
  8. Fossilized Forests
  9. Choke Points
  10. Father of All Things
  11. Vulnerabilities
  12. Fog of Numbers
  13. War by Another Name
  14. "The Divine Angel of Discontent"
  15. Brutes
  16. "The Falling Sky"
  17. Utopias
  18. Vitalist Politics
  19. Hidden Forces.