Download or read book The Body of the Conquistador written by Rebecca Earle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could European bodies thrive in the Indies? Would Indians turn into Spaniards if they ate Spanish food? This fascinating history of food, colonisation and race shows that attitudes about food were fundamental to European colonialism and understandings of physical difference in the Age of Discovery.