Umfang:
Online-Ressource (280 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781139419604
Serie:
Critical Perspectives on Empire
Inhalt:
This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; The Body of the Conquistador; Critical Perspectives on Empire; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Food and the colonial experience; Colonies, environments and diets; Difference, cultures and bodies; Geographies, chronologies and sources; Structure; 1 Humoralism and the colonial body; Spanish bodies, Indian bodies; Humoral bodies; A brief history of humoralism; Humoralism in Spain; Humoralism in the new world; 'They are delicate and feminine and of weak complexion'; Practical humoralism; Wet nurses; Conclusions
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2 Protecting the European body'I myself would much prefer a piece of bread'; 'Day-old bread, fresh meat and aged wine keep your health fine'3; 'The bestial foods of those who lack bread and wine'; 'The essential thing is to ensure that there is wheat and wine'; 'Wheat and wine will grow very well in this land'; Naked land; 3 Providential fertility; Climate and the creole; 'In what other land?'; Terrestrial paradise; Providential discovery; 'You will not suffer the hunger and pestilence of Spain'; New drugs from a new world; Conclusions; 4 'Maize, which is their wheat'
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'Bestial food for savage people'Cannibalism; 'It has a marvellous flavour'31; 'A little of this fruit suffices'; 'The bread of the Indians'; Bread or not bread; Men or not men; 5 'You will become like them if you eat their food'; Planting the faith; A European diet for Indians; Indians die on a European diet; Dream of Hispanicisation; Two republics; Conclusions; 6 Mutable bodies in Spain and the Indies; The cradle of race?; Souls and bodies; The curse of Ham; Amerindians and the sons of Ham; Intrinsic qualities; Alien bodies in Europe; Conclusions; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107003422
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Body of the Conquistador : Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
