Eating animals in the early modern Atlantic world : consuming empire, 1492-1700 / Danielle Alesi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alesi, Danielle, author.

Series:

Connected histories in the early modern world ; 2949-9909 http://viaf.org/viaf/7160060074235601150 13.

Connected histories in the early modern world, 2949-9909 ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food animals--America.

Food animals.

Food habits--America--History.

Food habits.

Settler colonialism--America--History.

Settler colonialism.

Food habits--History.

Colonial influence.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press ; Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

System Details:

EPUB and PDF viewing options.

Summary:

"This book examines how the perceived edibility of animals evolved during the colonization of the Americas. Early European colonizers ate a variety of animals in the Americas, motivated by factors like curiosity, starvation, and diplomacy. As settlements increased and became more sustainable, constructs of edibility shifted and the colonial food system evolved accordingly. By exploring the changes in animal edibility identifiable in early modern Spanish, French, and English sources in the regions of Mesoamerica, Greater Amazonia, and the east coast of North America, this book shows that animals, foodways, and settler colonialism are inextricably linked and that the colonization of the Americas was not only the beginning of new empires, but also of a long-lasting colonial food culture that drives both food systems and human-animal relationships to the present day."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. The best kinds of meat that I have eaten in America

Chapter 1. Tastes like chicken: fashioning an appetite for the Americas

Chapter 2. To satisfy cruel hunger: edibility and starvation in the animal typology

Chapter 3. Revenge eating: animal executions and performative eating

Chapter 4. For it is not edible: the new colonial food system as a form of colonization

Chapter 5. Consuming empire: commodifying the animal and the Americas in the colonization narrative

Conclusion. "Dirty animals".

Notes:

9781003694496 is the incorrect ISBN for this ebook.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-152) and index.

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ISBN:

9781040798881

1040798888

90-485-6018-7

90-485-7260-6

9781003694496

OCLC:

1545126055