American Globalization, 1492–1850 : Trans-Cultural Consumption in Spanish Latin America (Hardcover)

Introduction Bartolome Yun-Casalilla Part I: The Political Economy of the Spanish Empire and the introduction of Eurasian Goods in the New World 1. Trans-Imperial, Transnational and Decentralized: The Traffic of African Slaves to Spanish America and Across the Isthmus of Panama, 1508?1651 Alejandro Garcia-Monton 2. "The Reader’s Information" and "Norte de la Contratacion". The Translation and Circulation of Commercial Information Between Seville and London Around 1700 Jose Manuel Diaz Blanco 3. European Imperialism, War, Strategic Commodities, and Ecological Limits: The Diffusion of Hemp in Spanish South America and Its Ghost Fibers Manuel Diaz-Ordonez 4. Spanish Women as Agents for a New Material Culture in Colonial Spanish America Amelia Almorza Hidalgo Part II: Food and Empire 5. The Introduction of Poultry Farming to the Indigenous People of the New Kingdom of Granada, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Gregorio Saldarriaga 6. Gifts, Imitation, Violence and Social Change: The Introduction of European Products in the First Decades of the American Conquest Luis Miguel Cordoba Ochoa 7. Rice Revisited from Colonial Panama: Its Cultivation and Exportation Bethany Aram and Manuel Enrique Garcia-Falcon 8. In the Kitchen: Slave Agency and African Cuisine in the West Indies Ilaria Berti 9. Food, Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness Rebecca Earle Part III: America and the Eurasian Products in a Global Perspective 10. Elites, Women and Chinese Porcelain in New Spain and in Andalusia, circa 1600: A Global History Jose L. Gasch-Tomas 11. "That in the Reducciones Had Been Noise of Weapons...": The Introduction of Firearms in the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Missions of Paraguay Omar Svriz-Wucherer 12. Transatlantic Markets and the Consumption of Sevillian Art in the Viceroyalty of Peru: The Portobello Fairs in Tierra Firme (Seventeenth Century) Fernando Quiles Afterthoughts 13. From Goods to Commodities in Spanish America: Structural Changes and Ecological Globalization from the Perspective of the European History of Consumption Bartolome Yun-Casalilla