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  • Colonial Caribbean Diets and the Creolisation of Food Practices (1780-1890)

    by Ilaria Berti ...
    Series series Food Culture, Food History before 1900
    Colonial Caribbean Diets and the Creolisation of Food Practices (1780– 1890) approaches the topic with a comparative analysis of the British and Spanish Caribbean to give a fresh perspective on the history of the empires during the long nineteenth century. In order to examine processes of colonial encounters, negotiations, appropriations, rejections, mutual influences, and hybridisation, it ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • European Empires on a Plate

    c. 1750–Today

    Edited by Ilaria Berti, Stefano Magagnoli, Peter Scholliers, Peter J. Atkins ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This book uses food to explore the uneven and multifaceted encounters between European imperial societies and their colonies, examining the cultural, social, political and economic forces behind European empires.Food is a key focus of current transdisciplinary and border research, and these chapters uncover hidden aspects of imperial dynamics and the search for food in European expansion. ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • American Globalization, 1492–1850

    Trans-Cultural Consumption in Spanish Latin America

    Edited by Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, Ilaria Berti, Omar Svriz-Wucherer ...
    Series series Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts
    Following a study on the world flows of American products during early globalization, here the authors examine the reverse process. By analyzing the imperial political economy, the introduction, adaptation and rejection of new food products in America, as well as of other European, Asian and African goods, American Globalization, 1492–1850, addresses the history of consumerism and material culture ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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    How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

    by Lizzie Collingham ...
    A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the worldIn The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • National Dish

    Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

    by Anya von Bremzen ...
    **Named a Best Book of 2023 by Financial Times, The Guardian, and BBC's The Food Programme“Anya von Bremzen, already a legend of food writing and a storytelling inspiration to me, has done her best work yet. National Dish is a must-read for all those who believe in building longer tables where food is what bring us all together.” —José Andrés“If you’ve ever contemplated the origins and iconography ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • On Savage Shores

    How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

    by Caroline Dodds Pennock ...
    **AN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492"On Savage Shores not only changes how we think about the first contact between America and Europe but also sets the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction

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    by Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they established was even stranger than their real achievements. This Very Short Introduction deploys the latest ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Black Harbour

    Slavery and the forgotten histories of Black people in Newfoundland & Labrador

    by Heather Barrett, Xaiver Campbell ...
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    $10.99 CAD

  • Chocolate

    A Global History

    by Sarah Moss, Alexander Badenoch ...
    Series Book 8 - Edible
    Redolent of everything sensual and hedonistic, chocolate is synonymous with our idea of indulgence. It is adored around the world and has been since the Spanish first encountered cocoa beans in South America in the sixteenth century. It is seen as magical, exotic, addictive and powerful beyond anything that can be explained by its ingredients, and in Chocolate Sarah Moss and Alexander Badenoch ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Culinary Tourism

    by Lucy M. Long ...
    Series series Material Worlds
    "Well-researched and original" essays on the intersection between food and adventure ( Publishers Weekly).Culinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture, and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world.The contributors ... Read more

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  • A Dark History of Sugar

    by Neil Buttery ...
    A revealing history of our passion for sugar—and the medical, moral, environmental, and economic price we pay for it.A Dark History of Sugar delves into our evolutionary history to explain why sugar is so loved, yet is the root cause of so many bad things. Europe's colonial past and the British Empire were founded and fueled on sugar, as was the United States, the greatest superpower on the planet ... Read more

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  • Why Food Matters

    by Paul Freedman ...
    Series series Why X Matters Series
    From the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of food’s cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human history“A rich and fascinating narrative that reaches deep into the historical and cultural larder of societal experience, powerfully illustrating the myriad ways that food matters as an essential condiment for humanity.”—Danny Meyer, founder of Union Square ... Read more

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