Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781781381519
Subjects: Caribbean area, history; Caribbean area, social life and customs
Description: This volume 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 re-imagining the idea of globalization in a specifically Caribbean context.