Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492: More Than Commodities

ISBN-13: 9780367784652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 226 str.

Martina Kaller; Frank Jacob

Opis

This book brings together specialists from a range of historical fields to analyse the establishment of these commodity chains from the Americas to Europe as well as their cultural implications.

Spis treści

Introduction: Commodity Trade, Globalization, and the Making of the Atlantic World

Frank Jacob and Martina Kaller

 

Section I: Changing Food Habits

1. Chasing Chocolate: Transfers, Transformations, and Continuities in the History of Cacao

John S. Henderson and Kathryn M. Hudson

2. Flavors and Colors: The Chili Pepper in Europe

Esther Katz

3. The Jazz Age, Neapolitans, and Primitivism:

Futurist Cuisine at the Exposition Coloniale Internationale (1931)

Mariana Aguirre

 

Section II: New Consumer Societies

4. Tobacco: A Transatlantic Commodity and Its Cultural Impact in the Early Modern World

Frank Jacob

5. Coca-Leaf Transfers to Europe: Effects on the Consumption of Coca in North-western Argentina

Ricardo Abduca

 

Section III: Knowledge and Representation

6. Peyote and Ololuhqui in the Medical Texts of New Spain and Their Circulation in Spain during the 16^th and 17^th Centuries

Angélica Morales-Sarabia

7. The Pride of Lippitzbach: Multiple Spaces of Knowledge and Meanings of the Amazonian Water Lily. From the Amazon River Basin to Carinthia (Austria)

Marianne Klemun

8. When the Tomato was Purely Ornamental: Considering New World Foods in Seventeenth-Century Berlin

Molly Taylor-Poleskey

9. Unlocking Platinum: Early European Struggles with a Colonial Metal

Noah Benninga

 

Index

O autorze

Martina Kaller is Professor of Global History in the Department of History at the University of Vienna.

Frank Jacob is Professor for Global History at Nord University.