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The Early Modern Food Revolution

A Perspective from the Iberian Atlantic

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Global Goods and the Spanish Empire, 1492–1824

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The encounter between the Old and the New Worlds marked the beginning of extraordinary changes in the history of humans and their food. The discovery of America in 1492 during the search for a new spice route was the start of an important nutritional innovation. Plants and animals crossed the Atlantic from shore to shore, traveling enormous distances and setting in motion a true revolution that affected how millions of people ate.

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  1. Area of Early Modern History, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain

    Bethany Aram (Ramón y Cajal Scholar) & Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla (Full Professor of Early Modern History) (Ramón y Cajal Scholar) &  (Full Professor of Early Modern History)

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de los Ángeles Pérez Samper, M. (2014). The Early Modern Food Revolution. In: Aram, B., Yun-Casalilla, B. (eds) Global Goods and the Spanish Empire, 1492–1824. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137324054_2

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