Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500-2000, Carlos Marichal, David Pretel

Автор: Martina Kaller, Frank Jacob
Название: Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492: More than Commodities
ISBN: 1138385158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138385153
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Schwartzkopf Stacey, Sampeck Kathryn E.
Название: Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica
ISBN: 1477313869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781477313862
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Mesoamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded, even by those who had never encountered them before? The contributors to this volume explore these questions across a range of times, places, and peoples to discover how the individual pleasures of consumption were shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political forces.

Focusing on ingestible substances as a group, which has not been done before in the scholarly literature, the chapters in Substance and Seduction trace three key links between colonization and commodification. First, as substances that were taken into the bodies of both colonizers and colonized, these foods and drugs participated in unexpected connections among sites of production and consumption; racial and ethnic categories; and free, forced, and enslaved labor regimes. Second, as commodities developed in the long transition from mercantile to modern capitalism, each substance in some way drew its enduring power from its ability to seduce: to stimulate bodies; to alter minds; to mark class, social, and ethnic boundaries; and to generate wealth. Finally, as objects of scholarly inquiry, each substance rewards interdisciplinary approaches that balance the considerations of pleasure and profit, materiality and morality, and culture and political economy.

Автор: Michiel van Groesen
Название: Imagining the Americas in Print: Books, Maps and Encounters in the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9004348026 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004348028
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: In Imagining the Americas in Print , Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which publishers and printers in early modern Europe gathered information about the Americas, constructed a narrative, and used it to further colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world (1500–1700). The essays examine the creative ways in which knowledge was manufactured in printing workshops. Collectively they bring to life the vivid print culture that determined the relationship between the Old World and the New in the Age of Encounters, and chart the genres that reflected and shaped the European imagination, and helped to legitimate ideologies of colonialism in the next two centuries.