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100			_aGhosh, Amitav
245			_aNutmeg's curse : parables for a planet in crisis
260			_bPenguin Books, _c2021 _aHaryana :
300			_a339 p. ; _bill., _c23 cm
365			_b599.00 _cINR _d00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aImperialism
650			_aClimatic changes
650			_aEquality
650			_aSocial history
650			_aPlanetary crisis
650			_aAfrica
650			_aAmerindians
650			_aBanda Islands
650			_aCarbon footprint
650			_a China
650			_a Climate change
650			_a Colonialism
650			_aCovid19 pandemic
650			_a Europe
650			_a Flooding
650			_a Genocide
650			_a Geopolitic
650			_aGlobal Warming
650			_aIndigenous people
650			_a Lonthor Island
650			_a Maluku
650			_aTerraforming
650			_aVitalism
650			_a Witchcraft
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