From sugar to indentured labourers, tobacco to reggae music, Europe and North America have been relentlessly consuming the Caribbean and its assets for the past five hundred years. In this volume, Mimi Sheller explores this troublesome history, investigating the complex mobilities of producers and consumers, of material and cultural commodities including: foodstuffs and stimulants - sugar, fruit, coffee and rum; human bodies - slaves, indentured labourers and service workers; cultural and knowledge products - texts, music, scientific collections and ethnology; and entire natures and...

From sugar to indentured labourers, tobacco to reggae music, Europe and North America have been relentlessly consuming the Caribbean and its assets for the past five hundred years. In this fascinating book, Mimi Sheller explores this troublesome history, investigating the complex mobilities of producers and consumers, of material and cultural commodities, including:

• foodstuffs and stimulants - sugar, fruit, coffee and rum
• human bodies - slaves, indentured labourers and service workers
• cultural and knowledge products - texts, music, scientific collections and...