Focusing on the Spanish Empire, Marcy Norton investigates how tobacco and chocolate became material and symbolic links to the pre-Hispanic past for colonized In

Traces European encounters and use of tobacco and cacao and its eventual commodification into a major business from the earliest period through the seventeenth

A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America.

A 1996 comparative history exploring the significance of ceremonies performed by the western imperial powers to mark their territorial possession of the New Wor

In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat Chinese food. Today there are over 40,000 Chi