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Decency and excess : global aspirations and material deprivation on a Caribbean sugar plantation
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- Creator
- Samuel Martínez
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boulder, CO : Paradigm, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781594511875, 159451187X
- OCLC
- ocm74029426
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222) and index.
- Introduction -- A place no one calls "home" : the plantation and modernity -- Living in nowhere -- Commodity consumption in a globalizing age -- An indecent life -- Places and flows -- High times in hard times -- Material passions -- The hot and the cold -- Conclusions
Subjects
- Sugar workers -- Dominican Republic -- Batey Monte Coca -- Social conditions.
- Sugar workers -- Dominican Republic -- Batey Monte Coca -- Economic conditions.
- Commercial products -- Social aspects -- Dominican Republic -- Batey Monte Coca.
- Foreign workers, Haitian -- Dominican Republic -- Batey Monte Coca.
- Batey Monte Coca (Dominican Republic) -- Ethnic relations.