Sugar: A Bittersweet HistorySugar: A Bittersweet History offers a perceptive and provocative investigation of a commodity that most of us savour every day yet know little about. Impressively researched and commandingly written, this thoroughly engaging book follows the history of sugar to the present day. It is a revealing look at how sugar changed the nature of meals, fuelled the Industrial Revolution, generated a brutal new form of slavery, and jumpstarted the fast-food revolution. |
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... Christianity and Islam . Christians used it to sweeten their medicines and spice their food , and fermented it into ... Christian liturgies . Monasteries took up apiculture and produced these candles , mead and other honied by ...
... Christianity and Islam . Christians used it to sweeten their medicines and spice their food , and fermented it into ... Christian liturgies . Monasteries took up apiculture and produced these candles , mead and other honied by ...
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... Christian faith . For Las Casas , human rights were indistinguishable from practical , lived Christianity . Notre Dame law professor Paolo Carrozza has described Las Casas as " the midwife of modern human rights talk . ” 39 Las Casas ...
... Christian faith . For Las Casas , human rights were indistinguishable from practical , lived Christianity . Notre Dame law professor Paolo Carrozza has described Las Casas as " the midwife of modern human rights talk . ” 39 Las Casas ...
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... Christian sanction of and involvement in slavery and reinterpreted the fundamental meaning of Christianity and scriptural texts . The simplest and most important was the New Testament's decree " Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself ...
... Christian sanction of and involvement in slavery and reinterpreted the fundamental meaning of Christianity and scriptural texts . The simplest and most important was the New Testament's decree " Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself ...
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The Oriental Delight Conquers the West | 9 |
The Africanization of the Cane Fields | 75 |
The World the Whites Made | 121 |
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