{"product_id":"globalizing-chocolate-and-tobacco-medical-exchange-in-the-early-modern-world-hardback-9781684486007","title":"Globalizing Chocolate and Tobacco; Medical Exchange in the Early Modern World (Hardback) 9781684486007","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGlobalizing Chocolate and Tobacco\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMedical Exchange in the Early Modern World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSusan G. Polansky (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781684486007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 July 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e242 pages, 16 B-W images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.462 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An absolute delight to read. Scholars and foodies alike will find this work both stimulating and revelatory.\" - Carolyn A. Nadeau, author of \u003cem\u003eFood Matters: Alonso Quijano's Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This volume offers excellent bilingual (Spanish and English) editions of two influential seventeenth-century tracts in New World pharmacology as well as useful historical discussions of their cultural contexts and reception in Europe. As such, this volume will be of interest to both the historiography and pedagogy of early modern science, medicine, and the rise of a global consumer culture.\"- Ralph Bauer, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This new edition and translation of the texts of Marrad\u0026amp;oacute;n and Colmenero will shed light on the lives and works of the two doctors, furthering our understanding of the reception of chocolate in Spain and around Europe.\"- Erin Cowling, author of \u003cem\u003eChocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This research examines one of the earliest medical debates regarding the benefits of chocolate, a new beverage spreading from Spain through the rest of Europe. The author includes texts of the 1600s debate in their original Spanish as well as English translation. The work should be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about centuries of debate over the health benefits of chocolate\u0026amp;mdash;a debate that continues today.\"- Ross F. Collins, author of \u003cem\u003eChocolate: A Cultural Encyclopedia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking volume explores two early and opposing Spanish medical perspectives on chocolate and other New World substances. In the early 1600s, doctors Bartolomé Marradón and Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma returned from travels to the Americas with starkly different views: Marradón cautioned against tobacco and offered only limited approval of chocolate, while Colmenero vigorously defended chocolate's health benefits. Their writings, translated and circulated across Europe, helped transform chocolate from a medicinal drink into a global commodity. Featuring the first bilingual edition of Marradón's \u003ci\u003eDialogue\u003c\/i\u003e (1618)—in full Spanish and English—and a new bilingual presentation of Colmenero's influential \u003ci\u003eCurious Treatise\u003c\/i\u003e (1631), this book provides rare insight into early modern medical thought, cultural exchange, and the globalization of taste. Essential for readers of food history, early modern medicine, and transatlantic interchange, it uniquely reveals how debates over health, culture, and commerce brewed in a cup of chocolate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations ix \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePART I \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Doctors' Times and Views\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Two \"Doctors\" 7 \u003cbr\u003e2 Marradón and Colmenero: The Scientific and Social Contexts for Their Works 11 \u003cbr\u003e3 Audience and Aims of the Works 36 \u003cbr\u003e4 The Openings of the Treatises by Marradón and Colmenero 39 \u003cbr\u003e5 Authority, Argument, and Portrayal of the Other: Marradón's Consideration of Tobacco, Chocolate, and Several Medicinal Spirits 44 \u003cbr\u003e6 Authority, Argument, and Portrayal of the Other: Colmenero's Consideration of Chocolate 51 \u003cbr\u003e7 Scholarly Attention to Marradón and Colmenero 58\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePART II\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Two Works' Impact\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Translations Beyond the Borders of Spain 65\u003cbr\u003e9 Localization in England and Wadsworth's Translation: Chocolate Marketing to the Many for Health and Pleasure 68 \u003cbr\u003e10 Localization in France and the Translations by Moreau and Dufour: Patriotic Pride, Medical Advice, and Botanical Information for Doctors and \"All Who Love Their Health\" 77\u003cbr\u003e11 Relocalization in England and Chamberlayne's Translation: For \"All Good Men\" to Understand the \"Excellent Vertues\" of Foreign Drugs and \"to Admire and Bless\" the Creator 96\u003cbr\u003e12 Translation as a Project of Localization 102 \u003cbr\u003e13 Note About Style 107\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePART III\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Two Doctors' Works\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14 \u003ci\u003eDiálogo del uso del Tabaco, los daños y provechos que el tiempo y experiencia an descubierto de sus efectos, y del Chocolate, y otras bevidas, que en estos tiempos se usan \u003c\/i\u003e111\u003cbr\u003eBy Bartolomé Marradón\u003cbr\u003e15 \u003ci\u003eDialogue on the Use of Tobacco, the Harms and Benefits That Time and Experience Have Discovered About Its Effects, and on Chocolate, and Other Beverages That Are Used in These Times \u003c\/i\u003e132\u003cbr\u003eBy Bartolomé Marradón\u003cbr\u003e16 \u003ci\u003eCurioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate, dividido en quatro puntos \u003c\/i\u003e155\u003cbr\u003eBy Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma\u003cbr\u003e17 \u003ci\u003eA Curious Treatise on the Nature and Quality of Chocolate, Divided into Four Points \u003c\/i\u003e169\u003cbr\u003eBy Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments 185\u003cbr\u003eNotes 187\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 207\u003cbr\u003eIndex 217 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633828720920,"sku":"9781684486007","price":88.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/globalizing-chocolate-and-tobacco-medical-exchange-in-the-early-modern-world-hardback-9781684486007","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}