Danielle Alesi

Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Consuming Empire, 1492-1700

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how the perceived edibility of animals evolved during the colonization of the Americas. Early European colonizers ate a variety of animals in the Americas, motivated by factors like curiosity, starvation, and diplomacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9789048560172
• ISBN-10: 9048560179
• Artikelnr.: 73870286

Autorenporträt

Danielle Alesi is an Assistant Professor of History at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY. She teaches and publishes on medieval and early modern colonialism, environmentalism, animal, and food history in Europe and the Atlantic World.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Best Kinds of Meat That I Have Eaten in America
Chapter 1: Tastes Like Chicken: Fashioning an Appetite for the Americas
Chapter 2: To Satisfy Cruel Hunger: Edibility and Starvation in the Animal Typology
Chapter 3: Revenge Eating: Animal Executions and Performative Eating
Chapter 4: For It Is Not Edible: The New Colonial Food System as a Form of Colonization
Chapter 5: Consuming Empire: Commodifying the Animal and the Americas in the Colonization Narrative
Conclusion: Dirty Animals
Index