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VEEN, BOSCH & KEUNING
De vloek van nootmuskaat
Amitav Ghosh
The nutmeg as a parable for our environmental crisis and reveals how the exhaustion of the earth began in the time of the VOC. With special foreword for Dutch edition
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What does the battle for the monopoly on the nutmeg trade have to do with today's climate change? Amitav Ghosh's book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. At the center is the now ubiquitous nutmeg. In the hands of Ghosh, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing how our prosperity has always depended on earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugar cane, opium and fossil fuels. Today's global problems are ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the Earth, where nature exists only as a resource that people can use for their own purposes, rather than a force of its own. Weaving discussions about the history of the VOC and colonialism with the climate crisis and the spirituality of indigenous communities today, this book offers a sharp critique of the dominant ideology in the West.
Cover: Paperback / Size: 21 x 13.5 x 2.4 cm / Pages: 367 / Language: Dutch / Publisher: Atlas Contact / Publication: 24-02-2023
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