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 WorldFrank Jacob and Martina KallerSection I: Changing Food Habits Chasing Chocolate: Transfers, Transformations, and Continuities in the History of Cacao John S. Henderson and Kathryn M. Hudson2. Flavors and Colors: The Chili Pepper in EuropeEsther Katz3. The Jazz Age, Neapolitans, and Primitivism:Futurist Cuisine at the Exposition Coloniale Internationale (1931)Mariana AguirreSection II: New Consumer Societies4. Tobacco: A Transatlantic Commodity and Its Cultural Impact in the Early Modern WorldFrank Jacob5. Coca-Leaf Transfers to Europe: Effects on the Consumption of Coca in North-western ArgentinaRicardo AbducaSection III: Knowledge and Representation6. Peyote and Ololuhqui in the Medical Texts of New Spain and Their Circulation in Spain during the 16th and 17th CenturiesAngélica Morales-Sarabia7. The Pride of Lippitzbach: Multiple Spaces of Knowledge and Meanings of the Amazonian Water Lily. From the Amazon River Basin to Carinthia (Austria)Marianne Klemun8. When the Tomato was Purely Ornamental: Considering New World Foods in Seventeenth-Century BerlinMolly Taylor-Poleskey9. Unlocking Platinum: Early European Struggles with a Colonial MetalNoah BenningaIndex