To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic

Exploring what it meant to accuse someone of eating people as well as how cannibalism rumours facilitated slavery and the rise of empires, To Feast on Us as Their Prey posits that it is impossible to separate histories of cannibalism from the role food and hunger have played in the colonization efforts that shaped our modern world.

About the author

Rachel B. Herrmann is a lecturer in modern American history at Cardiff University.

Summary

Exploring what it meant to accuse someone of eating people as well as how cannibalism rumours facilitated slavery and the rise of empires, To Feast on Us as Their Prey posits that it is impossible to separate histories of cannibalism from the role food and hunger have played in the colonization efforts that shaped our modern world.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rachel B. Herrmann (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781682260814
• ISBN: 978-1-68226-081-4
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: Food and Foodways; Food and Foodways
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Geschichte, Sociology, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions