Global Goods and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1824 [electronic resource] : Circulation, Resistance and Diversity /
Aram, B.editor.
Yun-Casalilla, B.editor.
Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in Europe.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Global Goods and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1824: State of the Art and Prospects for Research; Part I: Cultural and Intellectual Constraints; 2 The Early Modern Food Revolution: A Perspective from the Iberian Atlantic; 3 The Difficult Beginnings: Columbus as a Mediator of New World Products; 4 Accommodating America: Renaissance Missionaries between the Ancient and the New World; 5 America and the Hermeneutics of Nature in Renaissance Europe
6 The Diffusion of Maize in Italy: From Resistance to the Peasants' DefeatPart II: The Social Use of Things; 7 Taste Transformed: Sugar and Spice at the Sixteenth-Century Hispano-Burgundian Court; 8 Diet, Travel, and Colonialism in the Early Modern World; 9 Asian Silk, Porcelain and Material Culture in the Definition of Mexican and Andalusian Elites, c. 1565-1630; 10 Interest and Curiosity: American Products, Information, and Exotica in Tuscany; Part III: Connected and Contrasting Societies; 11 Mexican Cochineal and European Demand for a Luxury Dye, 1550-1850
12 Hispaniola's Turn to Tobacco: Products from Santo Domingo in Atlantic Commerce13 Global Trade, Environmental Constraints, and Local Conflicts: The Case of Early Modern Hispaniola; 14 The Resilience and Boomerang Effect of Chocolate: A Product's Globalization and Commodification; Final Thoughts; 15 The Spanish Empire, Globalization, and Cross-Cultural Consumption in a World Context, c. 1400-c. 1750; Selected Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in Europe.
History.
Imperialism.
Europe-History.
Social history.
Civilization-History.
History, Modern.
History of Science.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
European History.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.