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008 120110s2012 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012000288
020 $a9781107003422 (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn773429592
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050 00 $aF1411$b.E26 2012
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100 1 $aEarle, Rebecca.
245 14 $aThe body of the conquistador :$bfood, race, and the colonial experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 /$cRebecca Earle.
260 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
300 $axi, 265 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aCritical perspectives on empire
520 $a"This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas of race during the Age of Discovery. Rebecca Earle shows that anxieties about food were fundamental to Spanish understandings of the new environment they inhabited and their interactions with the native populations of the New World. Settlers wondered whether Europeans could eat New World food, whether Indians could eat European food and what would happen to each if they did. By taking seriously their ideas about food we gain a richer understanding of how settlers understood the physical experience of colonialism and of how they thought about one of the central features of the colonial project. The result is simultaneously a history of food, colonialism and race"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 220-254) and index.
651 0 $aLatin America$xColonization$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aSpain$xColonies$zAmerica$xHistory.
650 0 $aSpaniards$zLatin America$xAttitudes$xHistory.
651 0 $aLatin America$xRace relations$xHistory.
650 0 $aImperialism$xSocial aspects$zLatin America$xHistory.
650 0 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zLatin America$xHistory.
650 0 $aFood habits$zLatin America$xHistory.
650 0 $aFood$zLatin America$xPsychological aspects$xHistory.
650 0 $aIngestion$zLatin America$xPsychological aspects$xHistory.
651 0 $aLatin America$xSocial conditions.
830 0 $aCritical perspectives on empire.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/03422/cover/9781107003422.jpg