‘Salt meat [...] is prejudicial to the health of the troops’the battles between doctors and the British Empire over army diet in the nineteenth-century Caribbean

  1. Ilaria Berti 1
  1. 1 Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
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Culture & History Digital Journal

ISSN: 2253-797X

Año de publicación: 2020

Volumen: 9

Número: 2

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.3989/CHDJ.2020.019 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

Las fuentes históricas británicas y caribeñas del siglo XIX muestran cómo los colonos se esforzaban por mantener su salud en los desconocidos climas tropicales y la frecuencia de los debates sobre los consejos que los protagonistas daban sobre la manera más adecuada para conservar la salud de las tropas y de la población civil allí residente a través de una dieta equilibrada y fresca. El artículo analiza de qué manera la preocupación de médicos y autoridades por la salud del ejercito y de los residentes en las colonias era de vital importancia para los intereses del propio imperio británico. Por lo tanto, se estudian los relatos, informes médicos e informaciones impresas de los periódicos de la época, que dan noticia de la política del Imperio para conservar la salud de las tropas en el Caribe, basada fundamentalmente en la alternancia entre dos diferentes modelos dietéticos. El primero de ellos basado en comida conservada (salada) e importada de la metrópoli, con el consiguiente negocio mercantil, y el segundo a partir de alimentos frescos locales.

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