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

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

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Author: Amitav Ghosh

9780670095629 | HB | pp. 350 | 2021 | Penguin Random House India

The Nutmeg’s Curse, argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism.

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9780670095629 | Hardback | 350 | 2021 | Penguin Random House India

The Nutmeg's Curse, argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism.

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Before the 18th century, every single nutmeg in the world originated around a group of small volcanic islands east of Java, known as the Banda Islands. As the nutmeg made its way across the known world, they became immensely valuable – in 16th century Europe, just a handful could buy a house. It was not long before European traders became conquerors, and the indigenous Bandanese communities – and the islands themselves – would pay a high price for access to this precious commodity. Yet the bloody fate of the Banda Islands forewarns of a threat to our present day.

Amitav Ghosh argues that the nutmeg’s violent trajectory from its native islands is revealing of a wider colonial mindset which justifies the exploitation of human life and the natural environment, and which dominates geopolitics to this day.

Written against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, and interweaving discussions on everything from climate change, the migrant crisis, and the animist spirituality of indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg’s Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society, and reveals the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces.

Author:

Amitav Ghosh
ISBN:

9780670095629
Binding:

Hardback
Pages:

350
Year of Publication:

2021
Publisher:

Penguin Random House India
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

The author is one of India's best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.

He was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford and his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. He earned a doctorate at Oxford before he wrote his first novel, which was published in 1986.

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