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Michel-Rolph Trouillot thought. I insist on modernity as revisited from the Caribbean historical experience to highlight the problematic character of .1 As couched here, the ï¬rst moment of globality, the Atlantic moment, encompasses ï¬ve centuries of world history and the shrinking of huge continental masses, including Asia. The designation does not refer to a static space but to the locus of a momentum. The global ï¬ows of that era were not restricted geographically to societies bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Spainâs conquest of the Philippines, the British conquest of India, and U.S. control of Korea all pertain to this moment. It is no accident that such non-Atlantic ventures often took place when the power that launched them claimed partial or total control of the Atlantic Ocean. In short, it is the continuous centrality of the Atlantic as the revolving door of major global ï¬ows over four centuries that allows us to speak of a single moment. Our contemporary arrogance overplays the uniqueness of our times, and may blind us to the dimensions of what happened before we were born. It may therefore be useful to document the density, the speed, and the impact of the global ï¬ows that made
South Atlantic Quarterly – Duke University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2002
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