UID:
almahu_9947414332902882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511763359 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Critical perspectives on empire
Content:
This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas of race during the Age of Discovery. Rebecca Earle shows that anxieties about food were fundamental to Spanish understandings of the new environment they inhabited and their interactions with the native populations of the New World. Settlers wondered whether Europeans could eat New World food, whether Indians could eat European food and what would happen to each if they did. By taking seriously their ideas about food we gain a richer understanding of how settlers understood the physical experience of colonialism and of how they thought about one of the central features of the colonial project. The result is simultaneously a history of food, colonialism and race.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: Food and the colonial experience -- 1. Humoralism and the colonial body -- 2. Protecting the European body -- 3. Providential fertility -- 4. "Maize, which is their wheat" -- 5. "You will become like them if you eat their food" -- 6. Mutable bodies in Spain and the Indies -- Epilogue.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107003422
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511763359
URL:
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