Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492
Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became important in the Old World, especially with regard to the establishment early modern consumer societies. 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.
Martina Kaller is Professor for Global History in the Department of History at the University of Vienna.
Frank Jacob is Professor for Global History at Nord University.
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More than Commodities
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Contents
Frank Jacob and Martina Kaller
Section I
Changing food habits
John S. Henderson and Kathryn M. Hudson
Esther Katz
Mariana Aguirre
Section II
New consumer societies
Frank Jacob
Ricardo Abduca
Section III
Knowledge and representation
Anglica Morales-Sarabia
Marianne Klemun
Molly Taylor-Poleskey
Noah Benninga
Ricardo G. Abduca is a social anthropologist based in Argentina. He received his PhD from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and currently works in Patagonia (Universidad Nacional de Ro Negro; IIDyPCA, Bariloche). He conducted fieldworks in North-Western Argentina, Bolivian Potos plateau, Buenos Aires slums and Pilcomayo Chaco region.
Mariana Aguirre is a Research Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estticas-UNAM. She received her PhD from Brown University in 2008 and has received grants from the Fulbright and Mellon Foundations to support her research. Aguirres main research focus is Italian modernism, especially aspects related to avant-gardism, primitivism, and Fascism.
Noah Benninga is a postdoctoral fellow at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, at the Hebrew University. He received his PhD from Hebrew University in 2016 for his dissertation on the Material Culture of Prisoners in Auschwitz and has taught Holocaust history at the Hebrew University and the Western Galilee College. He currently teaches at the Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies and the Ono Academic College.
John S. Henderson is Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1975. Hendersons teaching and research focuses on complex societies, especially in Mesoamerica.
Kathryn M. Hudson is a Graduate Student in the Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
Frank Jacob is Professor of Global History at Nord Universitet, Norway. He received his PhD in Japanese Studies from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen, Germany in 2012. Jacobs main research foci are tobacco history and modern Japanese history.
Martina Kaller is Professor of Global History and Global Studies at the University of Vienna; and President of the International Congress of Americanists (ICA). She was Guest Professor at Sorbonne and Sciences Po in Paris, Stanford University, and the Universidad Autnoma del Estado de Mxico. Kallers research focuses on global food history, among other topics.
Esther Katz, PhD, is a French anthropologist, senior scientist at the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD), in the joint research unit PALOC Local Heritage and Governance IRD/MNHN, based at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) in Paris. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Anthropology of Food. Her main research topics deal with anthropology of food, ethnobiology/ethnoclimatology and cultural identity. She has been doing fieldwork in Mexico since 1983 and in Brazil since 2007. She has also carried out fieldworks in the Congo and Indonesia and, on short periods, in Central and South America, Laos and Europe. She is presently involved in projects on food heritage, agrobiodiversity and climate change.
Marianne Klemun is Associate Professor at the University of Vienna. There she received her PhD in 1992. She is coordinator of the research group Arbeitsgruppe Wissenschaftsgeschichte at the Department. She is Secretary General of the INHIGEO (International Commission of the History of Geology). Her main field of interest is history of sciences (practices, botany and geology), spaces of knowledge in its cultural context.
Anglica Morales-Sarabia is Researcher of the History of Science Programme at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Humanities at the UNAM. She also teaches History of Mexico. Her research focuses on Natural History, Materia Medica and History of Botany.
