Rebecca Earle: 4 books

Book cover of The Body of the Conquistador

The Body of the Conquistador

Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700

by Rebecca Earle
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012

This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas...
Book cover of The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native

Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930

by Rebecca A. Earle
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007

Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century...
Book cover of Teaching Science and Technology in the Early Years (3-7)
by Dan Davies, Alan Howe, Christopher Collier
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014

Teaching Science and Technology in the Early Years (3-7) celebrates young children’s amazing capabilities as scientists, designers and technologists. Research-based yet practical and accessible, it demonstrates how scientific, designing and making activities are natural to young children, and have...
Book cover of Teaching Science and Technology in the Early Years (3–7)
by Dan Davies, Alan Howe, Christopher Collier
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019

Teaching Science and Technology in the Early Years (3–7) celebrates young children’s amazing capabilities as scientists, designers and technologists. Research-based yet practical and accessible, it demonstrates how scientific designing and making activities are natural to young children, and have...
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