Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492

More than Commodities

AvMartina Kaller,Frank Jacob

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became important in the ‘Old World’, especially with regard to the establishment early modern consumer societies. This book brings together specialists from a range of historical fields to analyse the establishment of these commodity chains from the Americas to Europe as well as their cultural implications.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-08-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:464 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Modern History
Antal sidor:218
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138385153

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Martina Kaller is Professor of Global History in the Department of History at the University of Vienna.Frank Jacob is Professor for Global History at Nord University.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Commodity Trade, Globalization, and the Making of the Atlantic WorldFrank Jacob and Martina KallerSection I: Changing Food Habits Chasing Chocolate: Transfers, Transformations, and Continuities in the History of CacaoJohn S. Henderson and Kathryn M. Hudson2. Flavors and Colors: The Chili Pepper in EuropeEsther Katz3. The Jazz Age, Neapolitans, and Primitivism:Futurist Cuisine at the Exposition Coloniale Internationale (1931)Mariana AguirreSection II: New Consumer Societies4. Tobacco: A Transatlantic Commodity and Its Cultural Impact in the Early Modern WorldFrank Jacob5. Coca-Leaf Transfers to Europe: Effects on the Consumption of Coca in North-western ArgentinaRicardo AbducaSection III: Knowledge and Representation6. Peyote and Ololuhqui in the Medical Texts of New Spain and Their Circulation in Spain during the 16th and 17th CenturiesAngélica Morales-Sarabia7. The Pride of Lippitzbach: Multiple Spaces of Knowledge and Meanings of the Amazonian Water Lily. From the Amazon River Basin to Carinthia (Austria)Marianne Klemun 8. When the Tomato was Purely Ornamental: Considering New World Foods in Seventeenth-Century BerlinMolly Taylor-Poleskey9. Unlocking Platinum: Early European Struggles with a Colonial MetalNoah BenningaIndex