Rebecca Earle (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

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. She is married to

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, MP for Warwick and Leamington.

Biography

Earle completed her undergraduate studies at

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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). 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

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. 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. Earle has written articles about food history for ''

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''. Earle was elected as a Fellow of the

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in 2020. She is a member of the Editorial Board for '' Past & Present''.

Select publications

*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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Earle, Rebecca 1964 births Fellows of the British Academy Living people Academics of the University of Warwick Alumni of the University of Warwick Bryn Mawr College alumni Food historians Historians of Colonial North America Historians of Latin America American women historians 21st-century American women