Book review: The nutmeg’s curse: parables for a planet in crisis by Amitav Ghosh

Kashyap, Shaan (2022) Book review: The nutmeg’s curse: parables for a planet in crisis by Amitav Ghosh. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (22 May 2022). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, Amitav Ghosh explores the spice nutmeg as a parable for our contemporary climate crisis, showing how human history has always been entangled with earthly materials. Offering a lucid call to action that seeks to inspire a collective response to the crisis, this book is urgent reading, writes Shaan Kashyap. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Amitav Ghosh. University of Chicago Press. 2021.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
Date Deposited:	01 Sep 2022 11:00
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:32
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/116342

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