Global goods and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1824 : circulation, resistance and diversity

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Global goods and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1824 : circulation, resistance and diversity

edited by Bethany Aram, Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Bibliography: p. 307-318

Includes index

Contents of Works

  • Global goods and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1824 : state of the art and prospects for research / Bethany Aram
  • The early modern food revolution : a perspective from the Iberian atlantic / María de los Ángeles Pérez Samper
  • The difficult beginnings : Columbus as a mediator of new world products / Consuelo Varela
  • Accommodating America : renaissance missionaries between the ancient and the new world / Antonella Romano
  • America and the hermeneutics of nature in renaissance Europe / María M. Portuondo
  • The diffusion of maize in Italy : from resistance to the peasants' defeat / Giovanni Levi
  • Taste transformed : Sugar and Spice at the sixteenth-century Hispano-Burgundian Court / Bethany Aram
  • Diet, travel, and colonialism in the early modern world / Rebecca Earle
  • Asian Silk, porcelain and material culture in the definition of Mexican and Andalusian elites, c. 1565-1630 / José Luis Gasch-Tomás
  • Interest and Curiosity : American Products, Information, and Exotica in Tuscany / Francisco Zamora Rodríguez
  • Mexican cochineal and European demand for a luxury dye, 1550-1850 / Carlos Marichal
  • Hispaniola's turn to tobacco : products from Santo Domingo in Atlantic commerce / Antonio Gutiérrez Escudero
  • Global trade, environmental constraints, and local conflicts : the case of early modern Hispaniola / Igor Pérez Tostado
  • The resilience and boomerang effects of chocolate : a product's globalization and commodification / Irene Fattacciu
  • The Spanish Empire, Globalization, and Cross-Cultural Consumption in a World Context, c. 1400-c. 1750 / Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Global Goods in the Spanish Empire: State of the Art and Prospects for Research
  • Bethany Aram PART I: CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONSTRAINTS 2. The Early Modern Food Revolution: A Perspective from the Iberian Atlantic
  • Maria de los Angeles Perez Samper 3. The Difficult Beginnings: Columbus as a Mediator of New World Products
  • Consuelo Varela 4. Accommodating America to Europe: Renaissance Missionaries between the Ancient and the New World
  • Antonella Romano 5. America and the Hermeneutics of Nature in Renaissance Europe
  • Maria Portuondo 6. The Diffusion of Maize in Italy: From Resistance to the Peasants' Defeat
  • Giovanni Levi PART II: THE SOCIAL USE OF THINGS 7. Taste Transformed: Sugar, Spice and the Sixteenth-Century Hispano-Burgundian Court
  • Bethany Aram 8. Diet, Travel and Colonialism in the Early Modern World
  • Rebecca Earle 9. Asian Silk, Porcelain and Material Culture in the Definition of Mexican and Andalusian Elites, c.1565-1630
  • Jose Luis Gasch 10. Interest and Curiosity: American Products, Information, and Exotica in Tuscany
  • Francisco Javier Zamora Rodriguez PART III: CONNECTED AND CONTRASTING SOCIETIES 11. Mexican Cochineal and the European Demand for a Luxury Dye, 1550-1850
  • Carlos Marichal Salinas 12. Hispaniola's Turn to Tobacco: Products from Santo Domingo in Atlantic Commerce
  • Antonio Gutierrez Escudero 13. Global trade, environmental constraints and local conflicts: The case of early modern Hispaniola
  • Igor Perez Tostado 14. The Resilience and Boomerang Effects of Chocolate: A Product's Globalization and Commodification
  • Irene Fattacciu 15. Globalization, Iberian Empires and Cross-Cultural Consumption in a World Context, c. 1400-1700
  • Bartolome Yun-Casalilla Selected Bibliography

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