The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification 2025
Re-presenting a Global Fruit
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; 273;
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Product details:
- Publisher The British Academy
- Date of Publication 28 October 2025
- ISBN 9780197267929
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 279x210 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 131 Illustrations, color 699
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Long description:
The pineapple’s ‘discovery’ by European colonisers in the late fifteenth century and its remarkable global trajectory – from an early modern object of rarity, desire, and horticultural innovation to a cheap, canned consumable and fair-trade logo today – is a story of modern globalisation. The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary volume intended to provoke timely debate and generate radical rethinking of an overly familiar fruit with associations from luxury to kitsch. It deliberately problematizes the pineapple by investigating understudied tensions between its representational power and the historical and political contexts of its worldwide production and consumption. This connects the global and local at the heart of contemporary debates about the nature and origins of our food. It will have cross-disciplinary appeal for scholars of politics, economics, history, plant sciences, food, and material culture as well as for broader audiences interested in food, gardening, the environment, and visual arts.
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1. Introduction: The Multi-Faceted Global Pineapple: Motifs, Materialities, and Meanings MELISSA CALARESU AND VICTORIA AVERY
Part I The Global Pineapple
2. From Wild Pine to Domesticated Delicacy: Metabolic and Evolutionary Diversity of the Pineapple HOWARD GRIFFITHS
3. From the Caribs to Carmen Miranda: Pineapples Across Time and Space REBECCA EARLE
4. Pineapple as Palimpsest: Island Landscapes as Iconography and Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean ALISSANDRA CUMMINS
5. Paradise Lost: The Pineapple Between Tropical Imaginaries and American Mythologies MELISSA L. CALDWELL
Part II The Cultivated Pineapple
6. Transporting Images, Transplanted Fruits: The Pineapple, the Jesuits and the Afro-Asia Trade ESZTER CSILLAG
7. ‘A Box of Fresh Pineapples to the Holy Father’: Pineapples and the Worlds of Sociability and Science in Eighteenth-Century Rome LAVINIA MADDALUNO
8. Princely Fruit: The Pineapple in Print in Old Regime France E. C. SPARY Part II The Replicated Pineapple
9. Iconic: The Pineapple in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting JULIE HOCHSTRASSER
10. ‘A Profusion of Pines’: Representations of the Pineapple in Architecture and the Decorative Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century KATHRYN JONES
11. ‘A Profusion of Metaphor’: Modern Literature’s Pineapples KASIA BODDY
Part III The Political Pineapple
12. A Liminal Commodity: Catch-Cropping, Chinese Capitalists and the Colonial State in the Pineapple Industry of Singapore, 1900s–1930s MICHAEL YEO
13. A Settler Colonial Experiment: The Pineapple and American Hawai‘i HENRY KNIGHT LOZANO
14. Dirty Pineapples from Costa Rica MARTIN MOWFORTH
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