This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between
overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It
reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish
America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial
expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas of race during the Age
of Discovery. Rebecca Earle shows that anxieties about food were
fundamental to Spanish understandings of the new environment they
inhabited and their interactions with the native populations of the
New World. Settlers wondered whether Europeans could eat New World
food, whether Indians could eat European food and what would happen
to each if they did. By taking seriously their ideas about food we
gain a richer understanding of how settlers understood the physical
experience of colonialism and of how they thought about one of the
central features of the colonial project. The result is
simultaneously a history of food, colonialism and race.
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