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The body of the conquistador food, race, and the colonial experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700
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Title
The body of the conquistador [electronic resource] : food, race, and the colonial experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 / Rebecca Earle.
ISBN
9780511763359 (electronic bk.)
0511763352 (electronic bk.)
9781107003422
1107003423
9781139419604
1139419609
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) : illustrations.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 14, 2020
Series
Critical perspectives on empire
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-254) and index.
Contents
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 like them if you eat their food"
6. Mutable bodies in Spain and the Indies
Epilogue.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Feeding Behavior.
Continental Population Groups - history.
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Cambridge University Press.
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