This article takes a close look at the history of an American tree now known as sassafras but known to the Timucua of early modern Florida as pauame. Sassafras root was a major anti-febrile medicament in the early modern world. The history of that medicament has thus far primarily been written in terms of the Spanish empire, which commodified it in post-contact Eurasia. Yet Native Americans, in particular the Timucua, as well as the French, the British, and the Russians, all played major roles in the history of sassafras. That history involves several objects derived from the tree sometimes called sassafras, knowledge about those objects, and Eurasian ideas about the Americas. This article focuses on the issues of entangled empires, and commodity and knowledge exchanges, to show that early modern commodities were not unitary objects, but rather shifting entanglements of objects, words, and ideas.

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解开商品历史：早期现代全球世界中的 pauame 和 sassafras

这篇文章仔细研究了一棵美国树的历史，现在被称为黄樟，但在现代佛罗里达州早期的蒂姆库阿被称为鲍阿梅. 黄樟根是早期现代世界的主要退烧药。迄今为止，这种药物的历史主要是根据西班牙帝国来写的，西班牙帝国在接触后的欧亚大陆将其商品化。然而，美洲原住民，尤其是提木库亚人，以及法国人、英国人和俄罗斯人，都在檫树的历史中扮演了重要角色。这段历史涉及从有时被称为檫树的树衍生的几个物体、关于这些物体的知识，以及欧亚关于美洲的想法。本文重点关注帝国纠缠、商品和知识交流等问题，以表明早期现代商品不是单一的对象，而是对象、文字和思想的不断变化的纠缠。