Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification

Victoria Avery has been Keeper of European Sculpture & Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, since 2010 prior to which she was Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Warwick. Vicky’s primary field of expertise is European sculpture from 1400 to the present day but she has broad knowledge of the materiality, making, usage, collecting and display of early modern European decorative arts. She has curated numerous research-led interdisciplinary exhibitions including Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (2019–2020), from which this book emerges. Melissa Calaresu is the Neil McKendrick Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, and co-curator, with Victoria Avery, of the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition and accompanying catalogue, Feast & Fast: The art of food in Europe, 1450-1800 (London: Philip Wilson, 2019). She is a cultural historian whose research interests include the history of food, the representation of urban space, and material culture in early modern Italy. Recent publications have focused on selling food on the street, urban kitchens, and the Grand Tour of the eighteenth-century Welsh painter, Thomas Jones. She is co-editor of the journal, Global Food History.

• List of TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: The Multi-Faceted Global Pineapple: Motifs, Materialities, and Meanings MELISSA CALARESU AND VICTORIA AVERYPart I The Global Pineapple2. From Wild Pine to Domesticated Delicacy: Metabolic and Evolutionary Diversity of the Pineapple HOWARD GRIFFITHS3. From the Caribs to Carmen Miranda: Pineapples Across Time and Space REBECCA EARLE4. Pineapple as Palimpsest: Island Landscapes as Iconography and Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean ALISSANDRA CUMMINS5. Paradise Lost: The Pineapple Between Tropical Imaginaries and American Mythologies MELISSA L. CALDWELLPart II The Cultivated Pineapple6. Transporting Images, Transplanted Fruits: The Pineapple, the Jesuits and the Afro-Asia Trade ESZTER CSILLAG7. ‘A Box of Fresh Pineapples to the Holy Father’: Pineapples and the Worlds of Sociability and Science in Eighteenth-Century Rome LAVINIA MADDALUNO8. Princely Fruit: The Pineapple in Print in Old Regime France E. C. SPARY Part II The Replicated Pineapple9. Iconic: The Pineapple in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting JULIE HOCHSTRASSER10. ‘A Profusion of Pines’: Representations of the Pineapple in Architecture and the Decorative Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century KATHRYN JONES11. ‘A Profusion of Metaphor’: Modern Literature’s Pineapples KASIA BODDYPart III The Political Pineapple12. A Liminal Commodity: Catch-Cropping, Chinese Capitalists and the Colonial State in the Pineapple Industry of Singapore, 1900s–1930s MICHAEL YEO13. A Settler Colonial Experiment: The Pineapple and American Hawai‘i HENRY KNIGHT LOZANO14. Dirty Pineapples from Costa Rica MARTIN MOWFORTHBibliographyIndex