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Centring the periphery : chaos, order, and the ethnohistory of Dominica /
The concept of "centring" is used to mean "ordering the world," and Baker links this to ideas in chaos theory, which views order and disorder as mutually generative phenomena rather than static antinomies. Thus strategies to control disorder and create and maintain order may sudd...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Buffalo :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Theoretical Questions
- 2. Indigenous Peoples and Their Contact Experience
- 3. European Discovery and Settlement
- 4. Formal Colonization: British Annexation, French Conquest, and Slave Revolts
- 5. Slavery and Emancipation
- 6. A Dominican Peasantry
- 7. The Rise of the Mulatto Elite
- 8. Capitalizing a Subsistence Economy
- 9. Democracy: Bringing Decision Making Home
- 10. Four Hundred and Eighty-Five Years Later: Independence?