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1 online resource (280 pages). |
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Critical Perspectives on Empire
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Critical perspectives on empire.
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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. |
Summary |
This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Latin America -- Colonization -- Social aspects.
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Latin America. |
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Colonization. |
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Social aspects. |
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Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History.
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Spain. |
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Colonies. |
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America. |
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History. |
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Spaniards -- Latin America -- Attitudes -- History.
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Spaniards. |
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Latin America -- Race relations -- History.
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Race relations. |
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Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History.
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Imperialism -- Social aspects. |
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Imperialism. |
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History.
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Human body -- Social aspects. |
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Food habits -- Latin America -- History.
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Food habits. |
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Food -- Latin America -- Psychological aspects -- History.
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Food. |
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Psychological aspects. |
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Ingestion -- Latin America -- Psychological aspects -- History.
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Ingestion. |
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Latin America -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Earle, Rebecca. Body of the Conquistador : Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107003422 |
ISBN |
9781139421652 |
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1139421654 |
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9780511763359 (electronic book) |
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0511763352 (electronic book) |
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9781139423694 |
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113942369X |
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9781139419604 |
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1139419609 |
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9781107003422 |
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1107003423 |
Standard No. |
9786613659828 |
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