Traces European encounters and use of tobacco and cacao and its eventual commodification into a major business from the earliest period through the seventeenth

Focusing on the Spanish Empire, Marcy Norton investigates how tobacco and chocolate became material and symbolic links to the pre-Hispanic past for colonized In

A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America.

A 1996 comparative history exploring the significance of ceremonies performed by the western imperial powers to mark their territorial possession of the New Wor

This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating.