LEADER 05079nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910816248503321 005 20220316211555.0 010 $a1-283-89907-8 010 $a0-8122-0715-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207156 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065398 035 $a(OCoLC)822017764 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642207 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000713595 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11420934 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713595 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10659060 035 $a(PQKB)11131150 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17648 035 $a(DE-B1597)449592 035 $a(OCoLC)979741270 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207156 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441872 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642207 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421157 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441872 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065398 100 $a20111109d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPolitical gastronomy $efood and authority in the English Atlantic world /$fMichael A. LaCombe 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (235 p.) 225 0 $aEarly American Studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4418-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-215) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. "Commutative Goodnesse": Food and Leadership --$tChapter 2. "Art of Authority": Hunger, Plenty, and the Common Stores --$tChapter 3. "By Shewing Power Purchasing Authoritie": Gender, Status, and Food Exchanges --$tChapter 4. "Would Rather Want Then Borrow, or Starve Then Not Pay": Refiguring English Dependency --$tChapter 5. "A Continuall and Dayly Table for Gentlemen of Fashion": Eating Like a Governor --$tChapter 6. "To Manifest the Greater State": English and Indians at Table --$tConclusion: "When Flesh Was Food": Reimagining the Early Period after 1660 --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $a"The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is born political gastronomy. Meals have become a means of governing, and the fate of whole peoples is decided at a banquet."-Jean Anthèlme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy The first Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621 was a powerfully symbolic event and not merely the pageant of abundance that we still reenact today. In these early encounters between Indians and English in North America, food was also symbolic of power: the venison brought to Plymouth by the Indians, for example, was resonant of both masculine skill with weapons and the status of the men who offered it. These meanings were clearly understood by Plymouth's leaders, however weak they appeared in comparison. Political Gastronomy examines the meaning of food in its many facets: planting, gathering, hunting, cooking, shared meals, and the daily labor that sustained ordinary households. Public occasions such as the first Thanksgiving could be used to reinforce claims to status and precedence, but even seemingly trivial gestures could dramatize the tense negotiations of status and authority: an offer of roast squirrel or a spoonful of beer, a guest's refusal to accept his place at the table, the presence and type of utensils, whether hands should be washed or napkins used. Historian Michael A. LaCombe places Anglo-Indian encounters at the center of his study, and his wide-ranging research shows that despite their many differences in language, culture, and beliefs, English settlers and American Indians were able to communicate reciprocally in the symbolic language of food. 410 0$aEarly American studies 606 $aFood$xPolitical aspects$zNorth America$xHistory 606 $aColonists$zNorth America$xAttitudes 606 $aIndians of North America$xFood$xPolitical aspects 606 $aIndians of North America$xFirst contact with other peoples 607 $aNorth America$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica$xSocial conditions 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aWorld History. 615 0$aFood$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aColonists$xAttitudes. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xFood$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xFirst contact with other peoples. 676 $a973.2 700 $aLaCombe$b Michael A$01655919 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816248503321 996 $aPolitical gastronomy$94008517 997 $aUNINA