{"product_id":"the-body-of-the-conquistador-food-race-and-the-colonial-experience-in-spanish-america-1492-1700-hardback-9781107003422","title":"The Body of the Conquistador; Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700 (Hardback) 9781107003422","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Body of the Conquistador\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFood, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRebecca Earle (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107003422, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 April 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages, 21 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.58 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'With this well-researched, erudite, and nuanced work, Earle has fundamentally shifted discussions of the colonial body, environmental history and the colonial enterprise itself … This fine book deserves a place on every Hispanist's bookshelf and will serve admirably in seminars on colonial Latin American and environmental history.' Jacqueline Holler, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: food and the colonial experience\u003cbr\u003e 1. Humoralism and the colonial body\u003cbr\u003e 2. Protecting the European body\u003cbr\u003e 3. Providential fertility\u003cbr\u003e 4. Maize, which is their wheat\u003cbr\u003e 5. You will become the same if you eat their food\u003cbr\u003e 6. Mutable bodies in Spain and the Indies\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Colonialism \u0026amp; imperialism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Colonialism \u0026amp; imperialism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Colonialism%20\u0026amp;%20imperialism%20%5BHBTQ%5D%22\"\u003eHBTQ\u003c\/a\u003e], Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265443352856,"sku":"9781107003422","price":86.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107003422i.jpg?v=1692022930","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-body-of-the-conquistador-food-race-and-the-colonial-experience-in-spanish-america-1492-1700-hardback-9781107003422","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}