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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Earle, Rebecca (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, [2012]
Colección:Critical perspectives on empire.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.