The Nutmeg's Curse by Amitav Ghosh

The Nutmeg's Curse by Amitav Ghosh

Ghosh begins with the seventeenth-century Dutch massacre of the Banda Islanders over control of the nutmeg trade, and uses it as the seed of a much larger argument: that the climate crisis and colonial extraction share the same underlying logic of treating land, resources and often people as inert material to be conquered.

He traces this logic from spice-trade genocide through fossil-fuel extraction to the present ecological emergency, arguing that the same worldview that justified colonial violence now underlies the West's inability to treat the planet as a living system rather than a warehouse. It is a bracing, historically grounded companion to his earlier The Great Derangement.

A sweeping, provocative work connecting colonial history directly to the current climate crisis.

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