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Sweetness and power:

the place of sugar in modern history
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Penguin Books, 1986 - 274 pages
"Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior."-The New York Review of Books.

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Subject matter and scope of research: fascinating. - Goodreads
General writing style: dull and soporific. - Goodreads
It was well researched and highly informative. - Goodreads

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Not for the common reader. Informative but dense and dry at times. Read full review

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User Review  - Samira Kawash - Goodreads

An indispensable study of the transformation of sugars uses and meanings over some five centuries. Mintz focuses on consumption, power, and trade in relation to Great Britain, but his account of the ... Read full review

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Contents

Food Sociality and Sugar
3
Consumption
74
Bibliography
215
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About the author (1986)

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

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