This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating.
Rebecca Earle shows that anxieties about food were fundamental to Spanish understandings of the new environment they inhabited and their interactions with the nat.
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.
This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating