List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 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 Bibliography Index.