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Economies of Representation, 1790–2000 : Colonialism and Commerce.
Title:
Economies of Representation, 1790–2000 : Colonialism and Commerce.
Author:
Dale , Leigh, Dr.
ISBN:
9780754682462
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (262 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Colonialism and Commerce -- 1 Meditation on Yellow: Trade and Indigeneity in the Caribbean -- 2 Sites of Purchase: Slavery, Missions and Tourism on Two Tanzanian Sites -- 3 The Bible Trade: Commerce and Christianity in the Pacific -- 4 In Search of M. Leprae: Medicine, Public Debate, Politics and the Leprosy Commission to India -- 5 Coincidences and Likely Stories: Perverse Desire and Viral Exchange in the 'Origin' of AIDS -- 6 Junk International: The Symbolic Drug Trade -- 7 Redefining the Shebeen: The Illicit Liquor Trade in South Africa, c.1950-1983 -- 8 The Textuality of Tourism and the Ontology of Resource: An Amazing Thai Case Study -- Part II: Reading Exchange -- 9 Text as Trading Place: Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother -- 10 Raw Deals: Kngwarreye and Contemporary Art Criticism -- 11 Sweet Beauty: West Indian Travel Narratives -- 12 Women's Trading in Fanny Stevenson's -- 13 Fair Trade: Marketing 'The Mohawk Princess' -- 14 How Queer Native Narratives Interrogate Colonialist Discourses -- 15 New Life Stories in the New South Africa -- 16 Postcolonial Pedagogy and International Economics -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This volume documents the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation. Examining trade in commodities as diverse as illicit drugs, liquor, bananas, disease, tourism, adventure fiction, and modern aboriginal art, as well as cultural exchanges in politics, medicine, and literature, the contributors contest the view of trade as an equaliser of cultures, places, and peoples promoted by some modern economists, demonstrating instead the ways in which commerce has created and exacerbated differences of power.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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