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Rebecca Earle

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Rebecca Earle
Born1964
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Rebecca Earle FBA (born 1964) is a historian, specialising in the history of food and colonial and 19th-century Spanish America. She is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick.[1][2][3] She is married to Matt Western, MP for Warwick and Leamington.

Biography

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Earle completed her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College in 1986. She then undertook three successive post-graduate degrees at the University of Warwick: MSc in Maths (1987), MA in history (1990), and PhD in history (1994).[1]

Her 2008 book The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810-1930 was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2008 Bolton-Johnson Prize by the Conference on Latin American History.[4] Earle's 2013 book The Body of the Conquistador. Food, Race, and the Colonial Experience in South America, 1492-1700 won the prize outright in 2013.[5]

Earle has written articles about food history for The Independent,[6] The Conversation, BBC History Magazine, and The Sunday Telegraph.[7]

Earle was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.[2]

She is a member of the Editorial Board for Past & Present.[8]

Select publications

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  • Earle, R. 2020 Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. Cambridge University Press.
  • Earle, R. 2012. The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700. Cambridge University Press.
  • Earle, R. 2008. The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810-1930. Duke University Press.
  • Earle, R. 2000. Spain and the Independence of Colombia. University of Exeter Press. Spanish Translation: España y la independencia de Colombia, Banco de la República (Bogotá, 2014).

References

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  1. ^ a b "Professor Rebecca Earle". University of Warwick. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Professor Rebecca Earle FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Rebecca Earle | Food Historian". Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  4. ^ Asunción Lavrin (2009). "Awards, Fellowships & Prizes". The Americas. 65 (4): 601–603. doi:10.1353/tam.0.0111. S2CID 150042240.
  5. ^ "Bolton-Johnson Prize". Conference on Latin American History. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Rebecca Earle". The Independent. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Rebecca Earle". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  8. ^ "About us".