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The Nutmeg's Curse 2021
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis is a 2021 non-fiction book written by Amitav Ghosh. The book examines colonialism and environmental problems, focusing on the Banda Islands. European powers dominated land, people, and resources to generate profit. The author uses the nutmeg trade history as the central example to understand how this has shaped today's world. This is Ghosh's second non-fiction book about climate change, following his 2016 work The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.
