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  • Recipes on the Move in Early Modern England and British North America

    Domestic Medicine, Mobility, and Manuscript Culture

    by Hillary Nunn ...
    Series series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World
    Using feminist and ecocritical approaches alongside recent historical work on early modern trade and commerce, this volume focuses on early modern manuscripts whose travels can be traced from one location to another. It illustrates how recipes came to blend newly encountered ingredients and practices with long-established healthcare methods. In the process, it offers attention to both the English ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Staging Anatomies

    Dissection and Spectacle in Early Stuart Tragedy

    by Hillary M. Nunn ...
    Series series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public's interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of bloodshed on the early Stuart playhouse stage. Considering the playhouses' role within the social world of early modern London, Nunn explores the influence of public dissection upon the presentation of human bodies in well-known plays such as King Lear, ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • In the Kitchen, 1550-1800

    Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad

    Edited by Madeline Bassnett, Hillary Nunn ...
    Series series Food Culture, Food History before 1900
    In the Kitchen insists that the preparation of food, whether imaginative, physical, or spatial, is central to a deeper understanding of early modern food cultures and practices. Devoted to the arts of cooking and medicine, early modern kitchens concentrated on producing, processing, and preserving materials necessary for nourishment and survival; yet they also fed social and economic networks and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Sweetness and Power

    The Place of Sugar in Modern History

    by Sidney W. Mintz ...
    A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern dietsIn this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Green Unpleasant Land

    by Corinne Fowler ...
    Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recipes and Everyday Knowledge

    Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England

    by Elaine Leong ...
    Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. This much-sought know-how ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women According to Men

    The World of Tudor-Stuart Women

    by Suzanne W. Hull ...
    What was it like to be a woman when England was ruled by a queen, but women had almost no legal power? When marriage cost women their property rights? When the ideal woman was rarely seen and never heard in public? In other words, what was it like to be a woman in England between 1525 and 1675? Suzanne Hull, in Women According to Men answers these questions and more, taking fascinating look at how ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Difference and Disease

    Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

    by Suman Seth ...
    Series series Global Health Histories
    Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill again? The widely accepted answer was that the newcomers needed to become 'seasoned to the climate'. Suman Seth explores forms of eighteenth-century medical ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Recipes for Thought

    Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen

    by Wendy Wall ...
    Series series Material Texts
    For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of English manuscript and printed recipe collections produced over the course of two centuries.Recipes reveal much more than the history of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Tastes of the Empire

    Foreign Foods in Seventeenth Century England

    by Jillian Azevedo ...
    During the 17th century, England saw foreign foods made increasingly available to consumers and featured in recipe books, medical manuals, treatises, travel narratives, and even in plays. Yet the public's fascination with these foods went beyond just eating them. Through exotic presentations in popular culture, they were able to mentally partake of products for which they may not have had access. ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Recipes for Thought

    Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen

    by Wendy Wall ...
    Series series Material Texts
    For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of English manuscript and printed recipe collections produced over the course of two centuries.Recipes reveal much more than the history of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Sweet Taste of Empire

    Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean

    by Kim Hall ...
    How seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slaveryOver the course of the seventeenth century, sugar prices fell drastically. As this newly affordable luxury made its way from royal entertainments to the closets of home cooks in ever increasing quantities, sugar bound England’s fortunes to ... Read more

    $58.49 USD