Transatlantic trade and global cultural transfers since 1492 : more than commodities

Author(s)

• Kaller, Martina
• Jacob, Frank

Bibliographic Information

Transatlantic trade and global cultural transfers since 1492 : more than commodities

edited by Martina Kaller and Frank Jacob

（Routledge studies in modern history）

Routledge, 2021, c2020

• : pbk

Note

Originally published: 2020

"First issued in paperback 2021"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became important in the 'Old World', especially with regard to the establishment early modern consumer societies. 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Commodity Trade, Globalization, and the Making of the Atlantic World Frank Jacob and Martina Kaller Section I: Changing Food Habits 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 16th and 17th Centuries Angelica 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 BerlinMolly Taylor-Poleskey 9. Unlocking Platinum: Early European Struggles with a Colonial Metal Noah Benninga Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC05181013
• ISBN:
  • 9780367784652
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 218 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 382.091821
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Culture diffusion -- Atlantic Ocean Region
  • LCSH : International trade -- History
  • LCSH : Consumer goods -- History
  • LCSH : Atlantic Ocean Region -- Commerce -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA62415982