Bahay Kubo: A Beloved Filipino Song Reveals Our Globalized Gardens
The next time you hear a child sing “Bahay Kubo,” recall that “sari-sari” garden
The next time you hear a child sing “Bahay Kubo,” recall that “sari-sari” garden
The “maroons” were determined to create new societies away from colonial rule.
In the early decades after 1492, vast movements of people and cultures gave rise to an astonishing tapestry of human connections in the Americas.
Rubber—sometimes called “black gold”—has shaped our world in innumerable ways.
Almost no corner of Chinese society proved immune to tobacco’s allure.
Here, on the red soil of the Dominican Republic’s north coast, I was in La Isabela, Christopher Columbus’s first permanent settlement in the Americas.
To satisfy a quickly expanding English market, colonial ships returned home packed with barrel after barrel of tobacco.
By 1800, the potato had become the staple of a large part of the European poor, especially in cold upland areas.