Globalizing Chocolate and Tobacco

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Medical Exchange in the Early Modern World

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This groundbreaking volume explores two early and opposing Spanish medical perspectives on chocolate and other New World substances. In the early 1600s, doctors Bartolomé Marradón and Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma returned from travels to the Americas with starkly different views: Marradón cautioned against tobacco and offered only limited approval of chocolate, while Colmenero vigorously defended chocolate's health benefits. Their writings, translated and circulated across Europe, helped transform chocolate from a medicinal drink into a global commodity. Featuring the first bilingual edition of Marradón's Dialogue (1618)—in full Spanish and English—and a new bilingual presentation of Colmenero's influential Curious Treatise (1631), this book provides rare insight into early modern medical thought, cultural exchange, and the globalization of taste. Essential for readers of food history, early modern medicine, and transatlantic interchange, it uniquely reveals how debates over health, culture, and commerce brewed in a cup of chocolate.Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-14
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska, Spanska
SerieCampos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures
Antal sidor228
FörlagBucknell University Press,U.S.
ISBN9781684485994

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List of Tables and IllustrationsIntroductionPart I The Doctors' Times and Views1 The Two "Doctors"2 Marradón and Colmenero: The Scientific and Social Contexts for their Works3 Audience and Aims of the Works4 The Openings of the Treatises by Marradón and Colmenero5 Authority, Argument, and Portrayal of the Other: Marradon's Consideration of Tobacco, Chocolate, and Several Medicinal Spirits6 Authority, Argument, and Portrayal of the Other: Colmenero's Consideration of Chocolate7 Scholarly Attention to Marradón and ColmeneroPart II The Two Works' Impact8 Translations Beyond the Borders of Spain9 Localization in England and Wadsworth's Translation: Chocolate Marketing to the Many for Health and Pleasure10 Localization in France and the Translations by Moreau and Dufour: Patriotic Pride, Medical Advice, and Botanical Information for Doctors and "All Who Love Their Health"11 Relocalization in England and Chamberlayne's Translation: For "All Good Men" to Understand the "Excellent Vertues" of Foreign Drugs and "to Admire and Bless" the Creator12 Translation as a Project of Localization13 A Note about StylePart III The Two Doctors' Works14 Diálogo del uso del Tabaco, los daños y provechos que el tiempo y experiencia an descubierto de sus efectos, y del Chocolate, y otras bevidas, que en estos tiempos se usan By Bartolomé Marradón15 Dialogue on the Use of Tobacco, the Harms and Benefits that Time and Experience Have Discovered about Its Effects, and on Chocolate, and Other Beverages that Are Used in These TimesBy Bartolomé Marradón16 Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del Chocolate,dividido en quatro puntosBy Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma17 A Curious Treatise on the Nature and Quality of Chocolate, Divided into Four PointsBy Antonio Colmenero de LedesmaAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex