Rebecca Earle
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 457602 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rebecca Earle |
| PRENOMES | Rebecca |
| SOBRENOME | Earle |
| ASSINATURA | EARLE R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3430-4240 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Native Informants in the Kitchen
“Miss Mumford’s receipt to pot cheese,” “Grandmother’s plumcake,” “pot roast Leonor”: recipe titles can connect a dish to a person, perhaps a friend, relative or – as with chef Diana Kennedy’s recipe for pot roast – much-valued domestic help. What is at stake in such attributions? They may memorialize a friendship or preserve family memories. They may also reflect an unwilling relinquishing of valuable knowledge, a desire to establish a recipe’s …
How to Cook a Husband and Other Metaphorical Recipes
Mobility, Violence, and the Afterlives of a Peruvian Painting at Sea
Mobility has become a central focus of research into material culture. We chart the life-cycle of one mobile object: a painting commissioned in 1790s Peru by an indigenous man, painted by an indigenous artist, and intended for the king of Spain. Its history demonstrates the importance of exploring not simply the fact that objects moved around, but the particular reasons why they were in motion, and the particular ways in which they circulated. In…
“Captured at Sea”
War was an important, and underappreciated, force circulating global goods into and around early modern Britain. Capture at sea brought millions of pounds of merchandise into the British Isles, offering new groups of consumers new ways of participating in the expanding world of things. By tracing the presence in early modern Britain of paintings from colonial Spanish America, we better appreciate the economic, social, and cultural significance of…
The World of Jacob de Pinna, Notary and Culture-Broker
Jacob de Pinna ( c. 1742–1827) was an Anglo-Jewish notary-translator. Translation was an essential part of British naval bureaucracy; De Pinna was one of the British High Court of Admiralty’s favorite translators. His labor was part of the machinery of early modern global trade and global conflict. It was also a form of intercultural mediation, carried out in the heart of London. This article explores both aspects of De Pinna’s world, via the not…
How to Teach an AHR Article
Rebecca Earle offers a lesson plan for teaching her own 2010 AHR article "'If You Eat Their Food ...': Diets and Bodies in Early Colonial Spanish America," which is among the journal's all-time most downloaded articles.Her module helps students use the history of food to address larger questions about the nature of early modern European colonialism and how an ordinary food like the potato came to shape and represent the modern world.Earle reflect…
Chris Otter. Diet for a Large Planet
Journal Article Chris Otter. Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology. Get access Chris Otter. Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 411. Cloth $49.00. Rebecca Earle Rebecca Earle University of Warwick, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Ameri…
Across Time, Space, and Matter
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) at New York University, the Center was interested in organizing a series of programs and events to reflect on food as a nexus for discussions about philanthropy, social justice, and cultural exchange across the global Hispanophone. We at the KJCC were especially interested in thinking about how food (discourse and matter) could be an occasion to study…
Tasting Difference
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Republics of Knowledge
Americans, declared Simón Bolívar at the opening of the 1819 Congress of Angostura, had been “subject to the threefold yoke of ignorance, tyranny, and vice” during the long centuries of Spanish rule. Consequently, “American people have been unable to acquire knowledge, power, or virtue.” As Nicola Miller shows in this splendid book, had Bolívar lived 100 years later, he might have been less pessimistic about the spread of knowledge across the hem…
Feeding the People
Empire of the Senses
Empire of the Senses: Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America. Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite, eds. Early American History Series: The American Colonies 1500–1830 8. Leiden: Brill, 2018. x + 334 pp. $156. - Volume 73 Issue 2
Race, Clothing and Identity
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Exquisite slaves
Exquisite slaves: race, clothing and status in Colonial Lima." Slavery & Abolition, 40(1), pp. 213–214
The Political Economy of Nutrition in the Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth-century European writers frequently described foods as ‘nourishing’. Nourishing foods were acknowledged to play a central role in building the healthy, energetic populations identified as key to commercial and political success, but their objective scientific characterisation proved impossible. In practice, only the people actually eating the food could determine its nutritive power. Eighteenth-century nutrition was perforce a form of …
The Anthropology of Marriage in Lowland South America
Sacred Consumption
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Food Matters
Alonso Quijano is better known by his literary nom-de-chevalerie: Don Quixote. At the start of the novel Cervantes provides a description of the knight’s weekly diet: ‘a stew containing more beef than mutton, salad most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and an occasional squab on Sundays’. In this book, Carolyn Nadeau unpacks this menu to delightful effect. As she shows, Don Quixote’s diet reveals a great deal about his so…
Potatoes and the Hispanic Enlightenment
Among the new publications tempting Spanish readers in 1785, alongside a comedy about jealous women, a how-to manual on forensic surgery, and a 600-page translation of the rulings of the Council of Trent, was a modest pamphlet about potatoes. Its author was an expatriate Irishman, Henry (or Enrique) Doyle. Doyle had for some decades resided in Spain, pursuing an undistinguished career in textile manufacturing. He had also drafted several essays o…
At the First Table
Prisoners languishing in the gaol of the Spanish town Zamora in the early seventeenth century could look forward to few pleasures. Those awaiting torture faced a particularly bleak future. The only bright spot on the horizon was probably a visit from the Cofradía de Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia (The Brotherhood of Our Lady of Mercy). This pious confraternity provided anxious inmates with little cakes and biscuits, prior to their interrogatio…
Food and Health in Early Modern Europe
The bedside menu at the US hospital from where I write this review would horrify a sixteenth-century doctor. The kitchen offers items ranging from fish tacos to eggplant parmesan, alongside grilled cheese sandwiches and chilled apple juice. Far from aiding recovery, such foods would be likely to provoke illness, in the view of early modern medical orthodoxy, as David Gentilcore explains in this delightful book. To begin with, there is no wine, an…
Food, Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness
Among all the labours of life, if there is one pursuit more replete than any other with benevolence, more likely to add comforts to existing people, and even to augment their numbers by augmenting their means of subsistence, it is certainly that of spreading abroad the bounties of creation, by transplanting from one part of the globe to another such natural productions are likely to prove beneficial to the interests of humanity. Bryan Edwards, Th…
Epistolary Selves
This volume of ten essays discusses the pivotal role that letters have played in social, economic and political history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The recent scholarly interest in the history of reading has as yet yielded few studies which consider letters as a category of readable material. The contributors to this book seek to redress this oversight, viewing letters as texts which can reveal information, not only about their…
The Pleasures of Taxonomy
A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in casta paintings (remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American images representing the outcome of "racial mixing") takes seriously both their fluidity and their genealogical character. Approaching classification, and casta paintings, from this direction clarifies the underlying epistemologies that structured colonial society and helps connect the paintings more explicitly to t…
The Faith of Remembrance
The Return of the Native
The Pleasures of Taxonomy
A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in casta paintings (remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American images representing the outcome of "racial mixing") takes seriously both their fluidity and their genealogical character. Approaching classification, and casta paintings, from this direction clarifies the underlying epistemologies that structured colonial society and helps connect the paintings more explicitly to t…
Padres de la Patria' and the Ancestral Past
This article examines the civic festivals held in nineteenth-century Spanish America to commemorate independence from Spain. Through such festivals political leaders hoped, in Hobsbawm's words, 'to inculcate certain values and norms of behaviour by repetition, which automatically implies continuity with the past'. But when did the 'past' begin? If in nineteenth-century France the French Revolution was the time of history, in Spanish America there…
Feeding the City
Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860." Slavery & Abolition, 32(4), pp. 604–605
Information and Disinformation in Late Colonial New Granada
In 1814, Alexander von Humboldt, the great traveller and explorer of the Americas, drew attention to an unusual feature of the movement for independence in the Viceroyalty of New Granada: the establishment of printing presses and newspapers followed rather than preceded the outbreak of war. Humboldt was struck by the contrast New Granada's war of independence offered with the two more famous political revolutions of the age. A great proliferation…
Republics of Knowledge
Americans, declared Simón Bolívar at the opening of the 1819 Congress of Angostura, had been “subject to the threefold yoke of ignorance, tyranny, and vice” during the long centuries of Spanish rule. Consequently, “American people have been unable to acquire knowledge, power, or virtue.” As Nicola Miller shows in this splendid book, had Bolívar lived 100 years later, he might have been less pessimistic about the spread of knowledge across the hem…
Algunos pensamientos sobre "El indio borracho" en el imaginario criollo
Desde el comienzo del período colonial, escritores españoles y criollos de toda Hispanoamérica sostenían que la embriaguez erauna característica esencial de la cultura indígena. Estas refl exiones presentan una interpretación de ese discurso. A través de unacomparación de discusiones coloniales y decimonónicas sobre el papel de alcohol dentro de la cultura indígena, trazo la evoluciónde la fi gura del indio borracho en el discurso de la élite e i…
Two Pairs of Pink Satin Shoes!!' Race, Clothing and Identity in the Americas (17th-19th centuries)
'The apparel oft proclaims the man', Polonius advised Laertes.1 Shakespeare's character presented this adage as universal, along with 'neither a borrower nor a lender be', and his assertion that fashion involves self-fashioning will seem familiar to today's readers. A growing literature on the meaning of dress in the contemporary world tells us that clothing assists in the performance of identity. By changing our clothing, we are told, we change …
Letters and Love in Colonial Spanish America
Is love a modern invention? This question is perhaps not quite as ludicrous as it might appear. For nearly three decades scholars have been exploring whether contemporary ideas about love are in fact as ancient as we might believe. As a result of these investigations, some historians have concluded that our current attitudes towards love date from no earlier than the seventeenth century. This opinion was expressed most forcefully by Lawrence Ston…
Sobre Héroes y Tumbas
Potatoes and the Hispanic Enlightenment
Among the new publications tempting Spanish readers in 1785, alongside a comedy about jealous women, a how-to manual on forensic surgery, and a 600-page translation of the rulings of the Council of Trent, was a modest pamphlet about potatoes. Its author was an expatriate Irishman, Henry (or Enrique) Doyle. Doyle had for some decades resided in Spain, pursuing an undistinguished career in textile manufacturing. He had also drafted several essays o…
Food, Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness
Among all the labours of life, if there is one pursuit more replete than any other with benevolence, more likely to add comforts to existing people, and even to augment their numbers by augmenting their means of subsistence, it is certainly that of spreading abroad the bounties of creation, by transplanting from one part of the globe to another such natural productions are likely to prove beneficial to the interests of humanity. Bryan Edwards, Th…
Indians and Drunkenness in Spanish America
Indians and Drunkenness in Spanish America Get access Rebecca Earle Rebecca Earle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 222, Issue suppl_9, 2014, Pages 81–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtt030 Published: 19 April 2014
Creole Patriotism and the Myth of the 'Loyal Indian
Journal Article CREOLE PATRIOTISM AND THE MYTH OF THE ‘LOYAL INDIAN’ Get access Rebecca Earle Rebecca Earle University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 172, Issue 1, August 2001, Pages 125–145, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/172.1.125 Published: 01 August 2001
A Grave for Europeans'? Disease, Death, and the Spanish-American Revolutions
Book notes
Democratic Community (NOMOS XXXV) edited by John W. Chapman and Ian Shapiro. New York and London: University Press, 1993. Pp.xiv + 451; index. £38.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 8147 1497 8 European Politics Today: The Democratic Experience by Frank L. Wilson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice‐Hall, 1994. Pp.x + 437; index. £36.50 (hardback). ISBN 013 292954 6 The Politics of Consensus: For the Resolution of Conflict and Reform of Majority Rule by P.J. Emers…
A Grave for Europeans'? Disease, Death, and the Spanish-American Revolutions
Information and Disinformation in Late Colonial New Granada
In 1814, Alexander von Humboldt, the great traveller and explorer of the Americas, drew attention to an unusual feature of the movement for independence in the Viceroyalty of New Granada: the establishment of printing presses and newspapers followed rather than preceded the outbreak of war. Humboldt was struck by the contrast New Granada's war of independence offered with the two more famous political revolutions of the age. A great proliferation…
Malcolm Deas, Vida y Opiniones de Mr. William Wills , vols. I and II (Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia
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Ideologues and Ideologies in Latin America
Creole Patriotism and the Myth of the 'Loyal Indian
Journal Article CREOLE PATRIOTISM AND THE MYTH OF THE ‘LOYAL INDIAN’ Get access Rebecca Earle Rebecca Earle University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 172, Issue 1, August 2001, Pages 125–145, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/172.1.125 Published: 01 August 2001
Two Pairs of Pink Satin Shoes!!' Race, Clothing and Identity in the Americas (17th-19th centuries)
'The apparel oft proclaims the man', Polonius advised Laertes.1 Shakespeare's character presented this adage as universal, along with 'neither a borrower nor a lender be', and his assertion that fashion involves self-fashioning will seem familiar to today's readers. A growing literature on the meaning of dress in the contemporary world tells us that clothing assists in the performance of identity. By changing our clothing, we are told, we change …
Entre silencios y voces
This book is a collection of ten essays originally presented at the Third Central American Congress of History in 1996. (Several of the contributions have recently been reprinted in English in Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America, ed. Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux [2000].) The work announces from the first pages that it intends to demonstrate that women have had a “growing, decisive, and transformative” effect on Central…
The Invention of the Restaurant
1University of Warwick The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture Rebecca L.Spang Cambridge, Mass. and LondonHarvard University Press 2000x + 325£11.50 0 674 000685 2
Padres de la Patria' and the Ancestral Past
This article examines the civic festivals held in nineteenth-century Spanish America to commemorate independence from Spain. Through such festivals political leaders hoped, in Hobsbawm's words, 'to inculcate certain values and norms of behaviour by repetition, which automatically implies continuity with the past'. But when did the 'past' begin? If in nineteenth-century France the French Revolution was the time of history, in Spanish America there…
Colonialism Past and Present
Muddied Waters
Having admired Nancy Appelbaum’s 1999 article in the HAHR, I looked forward to reading this monograph. I was not disappointed; Muddied Waters is a thoughtful and timely exploration of the constructed nature of regional identity, focused on the conflicting identities of the Riosucio district in Colombia’s western Andes. The book’s central premise is that regions are as much imagined communities as are nations, and that in the case of Colombia, rac…
Letters and Love in Colonial Spanish America
Is love a modern invention? This question is perhaps not quite as ludicrous as it might appear. For nearly three decades scholars have been exploring whether contemporary ideas about love are in fact as ancient as we might believe. As a result of these investigations, some historians have concluded that our current attitudes towards love date from no earlier than the seventeenth century. This opinion was expressed most forcefully by Lawrence Ston…
Repúblicas en armas
This study, based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, sets out to show the “central role of war in the attempt at constructing the Bolivarian nations” (p. 13). It focuses more specifically on the transformation of the insurgent army in Venezuela and Colombia during the years between 1810 and 1825. Thibaud argues that the military process itself helped create new nations and new national identities for the region. Grounded in a fundamentally Gu…
Sobre Héroes y Tumbas
Body Politics
Nationalism has always required heroes, and Latin American nationalism is no exception. By 1826, Peruvian officials were referring to Simón Bolívar as the “hero of our political existence.” The presence of these numinous figures is evoked in statues, paintings, and a myriad of other forms that symbolize and bless the nations that honor them. Their physical remains, too, may be appropriated for nationalist ends; in the 1870s, the Argentine governm…
Montezuma’s Revenge
Representing the Nation
Epilogue
Citizenship and Civilization
Archaeology, Museums, and Heritage
“Padres de la Patria”
Patriotic History and the Pre-Columbian Past
Indigenismo
The Return of the Native
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