{"product_id":"early-modern-maritime-recipes-lyn-bennett-9780228028871","title":"Early Modern Maritime Recipes: Circulating Knowledge in the Atlantic World","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescribing how to pickle beef, make a low-cost substitution for sugar, waterproof a coat, or treat kidney stones, eighteenth-century settler recipes recorded a wide range of processes essential to daily life. \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Maritime Recipes \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a compendium of culinary, medicinal, and domestic recipes from before 1800 that point to the many ways knowledge was preserved and circulated in the Atlantic world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawn from newspapers, letters, diaries, and notebooks held in archives of the northern Wabanaki territories - the region French settlers called Acadia and later named New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island - the collected recipes reflect the needs and practices of an eighteenth-century English-speaking population, revealing much about how settlers grew and prepared food, treated ailments, cared for animals, controlled pests, and maintained their households. Each recipe is Introduced with an explanation of its origins and followed by detailed analysis focusing on sources, ingredients, and techniques. Tracing the integration of Indigenous, African, and other non-European knowledge into settler cultures, the book highlights the many intersections of domestic life with social networks and political power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichly detailed and historically grounded, \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Maritime Recipes\u003c\/i\u003e documents the cosmopolitan quality of settler household knowledge, revealing that the history of settler domesticity is never far from the history of colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyn Bennett,Edith Snook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0228028876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780228028871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Lyn Bennett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997624611071,"sku":"9780228028871","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/early-modern-maritime-recipes-lyn-bennett-9780228028871","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}