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The body of the conquistador : food, race, and the colonial experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 /
"This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Critical perspectives on empire.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America 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."-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139421652 1139421654 9780511763359 0511763352 9781139423694 113942369X 9781139419604 1139419609 1107226929 9781107226920 1139411268 9781139411264 1280682884 9781280682889 9786613659828 6613659827 1139422626 9781139422628 9781107693296 1107693292 |