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Author: Dorothy Fadiman

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The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 Writings from the Ancient World and sometimes wacky stories thatThis fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas of race during the Age of Discovery. Rebecca Earle shows that anxieties about food were fundamental to Spanish understandings of the new environment they