1st Edition
Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World Consuming Empire, 1492-1700
By Danielle Alesi
Copyright 2025
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines how the perceived edibility of animals evolved during the colonization of the Americas. Early European colonizers ate a variety of animals in the Americas, motivated by factors like curiosity, starvation, and diplomacy. As settlements increased and became more sustainable, constructs of edibility shifted and the colonial food system evolved accordingly. By exploring the changes... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction: The Best Kinds of Meat That I Have Eaten in America, Chapter 1: Tastes Like Chicken: Fashioning an Appetite for the Americas, Chapter 2: To Satisfy Cruel Hunger: Edibility and Starvation in the Animal Typology, Chapter 3: Revenge Eating: Animal Executions and Performative Eating, Chapter 4: For It Is Not Edible: The New Colonial Food System as a Form of Colonization, Chapter 5: Consuming Empire: Commodifying the Animal and the Americas in the Colonization Narrative, Conclusion: Dirty Animals, Index
Biography
Danielle Alesi is an Assistant Professor of History at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY. She teaches and publishes on medieval and early modern colonialism, environmentalism, animal, and food history in Europe and the Atlantic World.
