Ilaria Berti
Biographic Data
| ID | 4164561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilaria Berti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilaria |
| FAMILY NAME | Berti |
| SIGNATURE | BERTI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1501-4937 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
I Never Met with a Worse Article in My life”: Disgusting Food and Repellent Food Habits in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Colonies
According to their accounts, British and American travelers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean encountered a wide range of disgusting elements connected with food. Not only did they face unknown and strange foodstuffs, but they also dealt with other repugnant habits such as the filthiness of the people and the places where they ate – or would have eaten had they managed to overcome their revulsion – and the lack of manners of the people with who…
‘Good Things […] from Bristol and Ireland’
According to the historical sources, the members of the Creoles elite were ambiguous in their dietary choices: if they mainly had British food when they shared their meals with British colonists, in their private sphere, the dishes served were mainly and with strong traces of slaves cuisine. We hypothesise that their incongruous behaviour was connected with a white planters’ supposed feeling of inferiority for which British ingredients, along wit…
American Globalization, 1492–1850: Trans-Cultural Consumption in Spanish Latin America
‘Salt meat […] is prejudicial to the health of the troops’: The battles between doctors and the British Empire over army diet in the nineteenth-century Caribbean
Nineteenth-century British and Caribbean sources show that European colonists were constantly struggling to maintain their health in a little-understood tropical climate; they engaged in frequent discussion and the exchange of advice on the preservation of their health. This article reveals that the maintenance of a specific group of temporary migrants, those in the armed forces, was a significant concern for the British authorities. It analyses …
Feeding the Sick upon Stewed Fish and Pork”: Slave Health and Food in West Indian Sugar Plantation Hospitals
The aim of this article is to investigate slave food provisions in the West Indies sugar plantation hospitals as a lens to analyse the plantation owners’ efforts to increase both the numbers and the well-being of the slave population. Because of the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, slave owners could no longer replace their workers by simply buying new ones, but had to find alternative ways to preserve and to increase their stock of …
Cibo e identità
American Globalization, 1492–1850: Trans-Cultural Consumption in Spanish Latin America
Feeding the Sick upon Stewed Fish and Pork”: Slave Health and Food in West Indian Sugar Plantation Hospitals
The aim of this article is to investigate slave food provisions in the West Indies sugar plantation hospitals as a lens to analyse the plantation owners’ efforts to increase both the numbers and the well-being of the slave population. Because of the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, slave owners could no longer replace their workers by simply buying new ones, but had to find alternative ways to preserve and to increase their stock of …
Feeding the Sick upon Stewed Fish and Pork”: Slave Health and Food in West Indian Sugar Plantation Hospitals
The aim of this article is to investigate slave food provisions in the West Indies sugar plantation hospitals as a lens to analyse the plantation owners’ efforts to increase both the numbers and the well-being of the slave population. Because of the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, slave owners could no longer replace their workers by simply buying new ones, but had to find alternative ways to preserve and to increase their stock of …
Cibo e identità
‘Salt meat […] is prejudicial to the health of the troops’: The battles between doctors and the British Empire over army diet in the nineteenth-century Caribbean
Nineteenth-century British and Caribbean sources show that European colonists were constantly struggling to maintain their health in a little-understood tropical climate; they engaged in frequent discussion and the exchange of advice on the preservation of their health. This article reveals that the maintenance of a specific group of temporary migrants, those in the armed forces, was a significant concern for the British authorities. It analyses …
‘Good Things […] from Bristol and Ireland’
According to the historical sources, the members of the Creoles elite were ambiguous in their dietary choices: if they mainly had British food when they shared their meals with British colonists, in their private sphere, the dishes served were mainly and with strong traces of slaves cuisine. We hypothesise that their incongruous behaviour was connected with a white planters’ supposed feeling of inferiority for which British ingredients, along wit…
American Globalization, 1492–1850: Trans-Cultural Consumption in Spanish Latin America
I Never Met with a Worse Article in My life”: Disgusting Food and Repellent Food Habits in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Colonies
According to their accounts, British and American travelers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean encountered a wide range of disgusting elements connected with food. Not only did they face unknown and strange foodstuffs, but they also dealt with other repugnant habits such as the filthiness of the people and the places where they ate – or would have eaten had they managed to overcome their revulsion – and the lack of manners of the people with who…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · History (2 works)