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This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters
have played in social, economic and political history from the
seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest
in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which
consider letters as a category of readable material. The
contributors to this book seek to redress this oversight, viewing
letters as texts which can reveal information, not only about their
writers and readers, but about the wider historical context in
which they were written. Topics covered include the mercantile
letter, diplomatic correspondence, and what these epistolary forms
suggest about the rise of a polite, literate culture in the
eighteenth century; the experience of immigration from Europe to
America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the
relationship through the letter; and the working of gender in the
epistolary form. Rebecca Earle provides an overview of how the
study of letter-writing can open up new avenues of historical as
well as literary investigation. This, together with contributions
form leading international scholars, makes Epistolary Selves an
essential text for those researching the letter genre.
This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters
have played in social, economic and political history from the
seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest
in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which
consider letters as a category of readable material. The
contributors to this book seek to redress this oversight, viewing
letters as texts which can reveal information, not only about their
writers and readers, but about the wider historical context in
which they were written. Topics covered include the mercantile
letter, diplomatic correspondence, and what these epistolary forms
suggest about the rise of a polite, literate culture in the
eighteenth century; the experience of immigration from Europe to
America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the
relationship through the letter; and the working of gender in the
epistolary form. Rebecca Earle provides an overview of how the
study of letter-writing can open up new avenues of historical as
well as literary investigation. This, together with contributions
form leading international scholars, makes Epistolary Selves an
essential text for those researching the letter genre.
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Potato (Paperback)
Rebecca Earle
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Baked potatoes, Bombay
potatoes, pommes frites . . . everyone eats potatoes, but what do
they mean? To the United Nations they mean global food security
(potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop). To
18th-century philosophers they promised happiness. Nutritionists
warn that too many increase your risk of hypertension. For the poet
Seamus Heaney they conjured up both his mother and the 19th-century
Irish famine. What stories lie behind the ordinary potato? The
potato is entangled with the birth of the liberal state and the
idea that individuals, rather than communities, should form the
building blocks of society. Potatoes also speak about family, and
our quest for communion with the universe. Thinking about potatoes
turns out to be a good way of thinking about some of the important
tensions in our world. Object Lessons is published in partnership
with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they
were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People
traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes
to everywhere. The potato's global history reveals the ways in
which our ideas about eating are entangled with the emergence of
capitalism and its celebration of the free market. It also reminds
us that ordinary people make history in ways that continue to shape
our lives. Feeding the People tells the story of how eating became
part of statecraft, and provides a new account of the global spread
of one of the world's most successful foods.
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.
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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