Oct 23, 2026  
2026-2027 Catalog 
    
2026-2027 Catalog

HIS 222 - Food and Empire


Instructor
Dietz

Food - its production, its consumption, and ideas about it - has inspired global trade, cultural encounters, environmental change, and systems of slavery and labor.  This course explores the relationship between food and empire, focusing on the connections between consumption, taste, power, identity, exchange, and culture in a range of British colonial contexts.  

Satisfies History major and minor requirement.
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.