Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492

Martina Kaller is Professor of Global History in the Department of History at the University of Vienna. Frank Jacob is Professor for Global History at Nord University.

Introduction: Commodity Trade, Globalization, and the Making of the Atlantic World



Frank Jacob and Martina Kaller



Section I: Changing Food Habits










Chasing Chocolate: Transfers, Transformations, and Continuities in the History of Cacao






John S. Henderson and Kathryn M. Hudson

2. Flavors and Colors: The Chili Pepper in Europe



Esther Katz

3. The Jazz Age, Neapolitans, and Primitivism:



Futurist Cuisine at the Exposition Coloniale Internationale (1931)



Mariana Aguirre



Section II: New Consumer Societies



4. Tobacco: A Transatlantic Commodity and Its Cultural Impact in the Early Modern World



Frank Jacob



5. Coca-Leaf Transfers to Europe: Effects on the Consumption of Coca in North-western Argentina



Ricardo Abduca



Section III: Knowledge and Representation



6. Peyote and Ololuhqui in the Medical Texts of New Spain and Their Circulation in Spain during the 16th and 17th Centuries



Angélica Morales-Sarabia



7. The Pride of Lippitzbach: Multiple Spaces of Knowledge and Meanings of the Amazonian Water Lily. From the Amazon River Basin to Carinthia (Austria)



Marianne Klemun



8.

When the Tomato was Purely Ornamental: Considering New World Foods in Seventeenth-Century BerlinMolly Taylor-Poleskey



9. Unlocking Platinum: Early European Struggles with a Colonial Metal



Noah Benninga



Index