Download or read book Empire, Political Economy, and the Diffusion of Chocolate in the Atlantic World written by Irene Fattacciu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the red thread of cocoa / chocolate through geographically dispersed social and economic networks within the Spanish empire to investigate the mechanisms of its diffusion, as well as its role in promoting both democratization of consumption and economic growth in the 18th century.