Bittersweet: The Story of SugarAllen & Unwin, 2002 - 190 páginas This social and historical exploration traces the history of sugarcane from its home in New Guinea to Shakespeare's England. Fascinating sugar lore and anecdotes are included, such as how Queen Elizabeth I became so partial to hippocras (mulled wine), sugared almonds, and pastilles that her teeth turned completely black. Explored are the political and sociological impacts of sugar on the world and the tremendous riches available to the unscrupulous few who grew and sold it. The days of manual processing are described, when fortunes were built on the backbreaking labor of slaves. The resulting wars and geopolitical shifts that have shaped the modern world are discussed in detail. |
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... China , although it is possible that it was only chewed as cane . There is a record from AD 286 of the Kingdom of Funan ( probably Cambo- dia ) sending sugar cane as a tribute to China . Some 500 years earlier , in the late part of the ...
... China , although it is possible that it was only chewed as cane . There is a record from AD 286 of the Kingdom of Funan ( probably Cambo- dia ) sending sugar cane as a tribute to China . Some 500 years earlier , in the late part of the ...
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... China , and Winstedt was an old man when its true origins were worked out . Few Europeans know much of the immense Hindu influence on Java and Bali . The various Javanese empires traded with India over many centuries , and perhaps sugar ...
... China , and Winstedt was an old man when its true origins were worked out . Few Europeans know much of the immense Hindu influence on Java and Bali . The various Javanese empires traded with India over many centuries , and perhaps sugar ...
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... Chinese fleets visited East Africa before Vasco da Gama entered the Indian Ocean , or that giant bronze drums made by the lost wax method at Dongson , close to Hanoi , were carried to places like Bali well before the Christian era , as ...
... Chinese fleets visited East Africa before Vasco da Gama entered the Indian Ocean , or that giant bronze drums made by the lost wax method at Dongson , close to Hanoi , were carried to places like Bali well before the Christian era , as ...
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... Chinese and Egyptian methods of making sugar . All we can say for certain is that sugar cane came from New Guinea , was traded along a variety of coasts , spread inland , hybridised with other species in India and travelled some more ...
... Chinese and Egyptian methods of making sugar . All we can say for certain is that sugar cane came from New Guinea , was traded along a variety of coasts , spread inland , hybridised with other species in India and travelled some more ...
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... China to the Atlantic , from Norway and Russia to the Indonesian archipelago , and south into Africa . And with no disrespect intended , there were almost certainly those Muslims who adhered to the letter of the words of the Prophet and ...
... China to the Atlantic , from Norway and Russia to the Indonesian archipelago , and south into Africa . And with no disrespect intended , there were almost certainly those Muslims who adhered to the letter of the words of the Prophet and ...
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Página 75 - L'OUVERTURE. TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy man of men ! Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough Within thy hearing, or thy head be now Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den ; — O miserable Chieftain ! where and when Wilt thou find patience ? Yet die not; do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow : Though fallen thyself, never to rise again, Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee ; air, earth, and skies There 's not a breathing of the common...
Página 34 - The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any.
Página 45 - Age, as we were told, very majestic ; her Face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her Eyes small, yet black and pleasant ; her Nose a little heoked ; her Lips narrow, and her Teeth black ; (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar) she had in her Ears two pearls, with very rich drops ; she wore false Hair, and that red...
Página 104 - I spoke to a borough-jobber, and offered five and twenty hundred pounds for a secure seat in Parliament ; but he laughed at my offer, and said, that there was no such thing as a borough to be had now, for that the rich Blast and West Indians had secured them all, at the rate of three thousand pounds at least ; but many at four thousand, and two or three that he knew, at five thousand.
Página 127 - Quashee will not honestly aid in bringing-out those sugars, cinnamons and nobler products of the West-Indian Islands, for the benefit of all mankind, then I say neither will the Powers permit Quashee to continue growing pumpkins there for his own lazy benefit; but will shear him out, by and by, like a lazy gourd overshadowing rich ground ; him and all that partake with him, — perhaps in a very terrible manner. For, under favour of Exeter Hall, the
Página 55 - The slaves and their posterity, being subject to their Masters for ever, are kept and...
Página 127 - I apprehend they will, as a preliminary, resolutely refuse to permit the Black man any privilege whatever of pumpkins till he agree for work in return. Not a square inch of soil in those fruitful Isles, purchased by British blood, shall any Black man hold to grow pumpkins for him, except on terms that are fair towards Britain. Fair ; see that they be not unfair, not towards ourselves, and still more, not towards him. For injustice...
Página 75 - L'ouverture Toussaint, the most unhappy man of men! Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough Within thy hearing, or thy head be now Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den; O miserable Chieftain! where and when Wilt thou find patience? Yet die not; do thou Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow; Though fallen thyself, never to rise again, Live, and take comfort.