Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World

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Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World is written by Danielle Alesi and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040798888 (ISBN 10) and 9781040798881 (ISBN 13).

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 in animal edibility identifiable in early modern Spanish, French, and English sources in the regions of Mesoamerica, Greater Amazonia, and the east coast of North America, this book shows that animals, foodways, and settler colonialism are inextricably linked and that the colonization of the Americas was not only the beginning of new empires, but also of a long-lasting colonial food culture that drives both food systems and human-animal relationships to the present day.