Rebecca Earle

The Body of the Conquistador

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 407g
• ISBN-13: 9781107693296
• ISBN-10: 1107693292
• Artikelnr.: 40451457

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Earle is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Her previous publications include The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810¿1930 (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: food and the colonial experience
1. Humoralism and the colonial body
2. Protecting the European body
3. Providential fertility
4. Maize, which is their wheat
5. You will become the same if you eat their food
6. Mutable bodies in Spain and the Indies
Epilogue
Bibliography.