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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Excavating longue durée histories of food security in Africa -- Choosing local over global during the Columbian exchange (c. 1400-1650 AD) -- Tasting privilege and privation during Asante rule and the Atlantic slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries -- Creating chronic food insecurity in the Gold Coast colony (c. 1890s-1940s) -- Consuming a remotely global modernity, c.1940s-2009 -- Eating and remembering past cultural achievements -- Appendix A : methodology -- Appendix B : archaeobotanical data -- Appendix C : wild leaves used by modern villages.…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The bigger picture / Josef Raab and Stefan Rinke -- America / Stefan Rinke -- Atlantic / Ernesto Mercado Montero -- Colonial economies / Juan Marchena Fernández -- Colonial rule / Eduardo Cavieres -- Columbian exchange / Charles C. Mann -- Conquest and colonization / Christoph Strobel -- Enlightenment / Thomas O. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Arctic Ocean -- The Atlantic Ocean -- The Indian Ocean -- The Pacific Ocean -- The Southern Ocean -- Oceans and seas in world culture -- The changing nature of ocean boundaries -- The shipping industry -- Ocean exploration -- Environmental issues and the world's oceans -- Adriatic sea -- Age of sail -- Antikythera wreck -- Aquaculture -- Art and the sea -- Atlantic galleon exchange -- Atlantis -- Atocha wreck -- Austronesians -- Beachcombers (transculturites) -- Belitung wreck -- Bermuda Triangle -- Bikini Atoll (nuclear Pacific) -- Burial at sea -- Carbon cycle -- Celestial navigation -- Climate change -- Coastal erosion and deposition -- The Columbian exchange -- Commodities -- Cook, James (1728-1779) -- Coral reefs -- Coriolis effect -- Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997) -- Cross-cultural encounters -- Da Gama, Vasco (1469-1524) -- Deep sea exploration -- Earle, Sylvia (1935- ) -- El Niño/La Niña -- Estuaries -- Exclusive economic zone -- Fortified wines (port and madeira) -- Glaciers -- Great Barrier Reef (Australia) -- Great Pacific garbage patch -- The Great Wave Off Kanagawa -- Groot (Grotius), Hugo de (1583-1645) -- Heyerdahl, Thor (1914-2002) -- Hokule'a -- Hurricanes and typhoons -- Ibn Majid, Ahmad (c. 1432-c. 1500) -- Ice melt -- Islands -- Law of the sea -- Literature and the sea -- Little ice age -- Littoral -- Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521) -- The Manila Galleon -- Marine pollution -- Maritime archaeology -- Maritime deities -- Maritime empires -- Maritime organizations -- Maritime trade -- Mediterranean Sea -- Mermaids -- MH370 -- Moby-Dick -- Mu (continent of) -- Music and seafarers -- Myths and legends -- Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930) -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -- Navigation -- Nor-easter -- Northwest Passage -- Ocean acidification -- Ocean currents -- Ocean tides -- Panama Canal -- Piailug, Mau (1932-2010) -- Piracy -- Plate tectonics -- Poseidon/Neptune -- Reefs -- Salinity -- Sargasso Sea -- Sea Ice -- Sea level rise -- Sea monsters -- The sea peoples -- Sharks -- The South China Sea -- Suez Canal -- Surfing -- Terra Australis incognita -- Thalassocracy -- Tomol -- Tsunami -- Tupaia (c. 1725-1770) -- United Nations convention on the law of the sea -- The vikings -- Warships: North American colonial wars -- Waves -- Whales and whaling -- Zheng He (1371-c. 1430)…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Geography and the shaping of early colonial Cuba -- Indigenous inhabitants -- First encounters, inventing America, and the Columbian Exchange -- The manufacturing of Cuba: conquests, demographic collapses, and government institutions -- The emergence of Creole society -- The Cuban ajiaco: transculturation and transgression -- The cockpit of Europe -- Deceivingly sweet: sugar, slavery, and resistance.…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The poysoned weede -- A collection of rarities -- Bartram's boxes -- Loathsome harlotry -- The biggest book -- Strong medicine -- Royal color -- A Virginia native -- The vine lifestyle -- The Columbian exchange -- What do animals eat? -- Bird candy -- Preparing for doomsday -- Holding on to the land -- There's gold in them there hills : Poison oak -- The devil you know -- No holds barred -- The future of poison ivy -- Epilogue : To feed a mockingbird -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix : How to avoid, heal, obliterate, and coexist with poison ivy.…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Florida After Europeans and Africans ArrivedImplications of the Columbian Exchange; Economic Incentives behind the Voyages of Discovery; Malaria and the West African Slaves; Europeans Arrive in Florida; European Incursions into Indian Territory; Spanish Mission Settlements and the Apalachicolas and Timucuans; Rice, Slaves, and the Anglo-Spanish Struggle for Florida; William Bartram's Descriptions of North Florida; Florida Becomes a Part of the United States; The Patriot War; The Onset of the Seminole Indian Wars; The Anglo-Appalachian Heritage of Florida's White Settlers.…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Healthy food: Renaissance dietetics, c.1450 to c.1650 -- Healthy food: the fall and rise of dietetics, c. 1650 to c. 1800 -- Rich food, poor food: diet, physiology and social rank -- Regional food: nature and nation in Europe -- Holy food: spiritual and bodily health -- Vegetable food: the vegetarian option -- New World food: the Columbian exchange and its European impact -- Liquid food: drinking for health.…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Healthy Food: Renaissance Dietetics, c.1450-c.1650 -- 2 Healthy Food: The Fall and Rise of Dietetics, c.1650-c.1800 -- 3 Rich Food, Poor Food: Diet, Physiology and Social Rank -- 4 Regional Food: Nature and Nation in Europe -- 5 Holy Food: Spiritual and Bodily Health -- 6 Vegetable Food: The Vegetarian Option -- 7 New World Food: The Columbian Exchange and Its European Impact -- 8 Liquid Food: Drinking for Health -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- "Times Are Altered with Us": American Indians from First Contact to the New Republic -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 1492 and Before -- Before Europeans -- Invasions of America -- Rewriting "History" -- The Bering Strait Theory -- Culture Areas -- The Development of Maize -- The Southwest -- The Eastern Woodlands -- Native American Population before 1492 -- Native Americans and Old World Diseases -- The Columbian Exchange -- Chapter 2 Encountering the Spanish -- Pánfilo de Narváez -- Cabeza de Vaca…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Images, Maps and Tables; Preface; Introduction; SELF-FASHIONING THE MIDDLE-CLASS; SITUATING BENGALI CUISINE; HIERARCHICAL COSMOPOLITANISM; SOURCES AND STRUCTURE; 1 Introducing 'Foreign' Food: Changes in the Gastronomic Culture of Colonial Bengal; EXPERIMENTS WITH FOOD: 'COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE'?; AGRICULTURAL POLICIES OF THE COLONIAL STATE; CAROLINA RICE EXPERIMENTATIONS IN COLONIAL BENGAL: 'RATIONAL' AND 'MODERN?'…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Columbian Exchange -- Epidemics -- Tools of the Trade -- Abundance -- Wartime -- New Nation -- Giving Birth -- The Face of Madness -- Democratic Medicine -- Public Health -- Conclusion.…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Race and nation in Glory -- Native America, Thunderheart, and the national imaginary -- National identity, gender identity, and the rescue fantasy in Born on the Fourth of July -- Modernism and the narrative of nation in JFK -- Prosthetic memory/national memory: Forrest Gump -- The columbian exchange: Pocahontas and The new world -- Homeland or promised land?…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prologue : Texas and the world -- Islam and a wider world, 1450-1490 -- Columbian exchanges, 1490-1530 -- Old ways made new, 1530-1570 -- New shapes of power, 1570-1610 -- Settlers and diasporas, 1610-1640 -- Time of troubles, 1640-1670 -- Toward an early modern world, 1670-1700.…”
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