The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

by Amitav Ghosh

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The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.

Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean, The Nutmeg's Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. The story of the nutmeg becomes a parable revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with...

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  • ISBN10 1529369436
  • ISBN13 9781529369434
  • Publish Date 14 October 2021
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 November 2024
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher John Murray Press
  • Imprint John Murray Publishers Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English