Sugar: A Bittersweet HistoryAbrams, 2011 M09 27 - 545 páginas This dramatic history of an ingredient that changed the world “offers up a number of fascinating stories” (The New York Times Book Review). Sugar explores the history behind the sweetness, revealing, among other stories, how powerful American interests deposed Queen Lili’uokalani of Hawaii; how Hitler tried to ensure a steady supply of beet sugar when enemies threatened to cut off Germany’s supply of overseas cane sugar; and how South Africa established a domestic ethanol industry in the wake of anti-apartheid sugar embargos. The book follows the role of sugar in world events and in individual lives up to the present day, showing how it made eating on the run socially acceptable and played an integral role in today’s fast food culture and obesity epidemic. Impressively researched and commandingly written, Sugar will forever change perceptions of this tempting treat. “A highly readable and comprehensive study of a remarkable product.” —The Independent “Epic in ambition and briskly written.” —The Wall Street Journal “Readers will never again be able to casually sweeten tea or eat sweets without considering the long and fascinating history of sugar.” —Booklist |
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... Cuban slaves already in the fields before sunrise startled Great House visitors awake with the " prolonged wailing cadences of their barbaric chants , ' " 130 " A - a - b'la ! " " E - e - cha ! E - e - cha ! " as the boilers cried out ...
... Cuban slaves already in the fields before sunrise startled Great House visitors awake with the " prolonged wailing cadences of their barbaric chants , ' " 130 " A - a - b'la ! " " E - e - cha ! E - e - cha ! " as the boilers cried out ...
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... Cuban plantations kept slave infants in " nursery rooms " in the grim slave quarters or barracoons , but permitted their mothers to come in from the fields twice or three times a day to breast - feed them . An American woman found these ...
... Cuban plantations kept slave infants in " nursery rooms " in the grim slave quarters or barracoons , but permitted their mothers to come in from the fields twice or three times a day to breast - feed them . An American woman found these ...
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... sugar mills and we catch our finger in the millstone , they cut off our hand ; when we try to run away , they cut off a leg ; both things have happened to me . It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe . " One remarkable Cuban ...
... sugar mills and we catch our finger in the millstone , they cut off our hand ; when we try to run away , they cut off a leg ; both things have happened to me . It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe . " One remarkable Cuban ...
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... Cuban sugar plantations housed their slaves in barracoons , grim , dirt- floored , unventilated barracks built of wood or cement . Runaway slave Esteban Montejo described the barracoon he ... Cuban sugar slaves weren't wretched enough , they.
... Cuban sugar plantations housed their slaves in barracoons , grim , dirt- floored , unventilated barracks built of wood or cement . Runaway slave Esteban Montejo described the barracoon he ... Cuban sugar slaves weren't wretched enough , they.
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A Bittersweet History Elizabeth Abbott. As if Cuban sugar slaves weren't wretched enough , they were locked in at night , imprisoned in their cells , overseen by two watchmen who were to report any suspicious activity . American visitor ...
A Bittersweet History Elizabeth Abbott. As if Cuban sugar slaves weren't wretched enough , they were locked in at night , imprisoned in their cells , overseen by two watchmen who were to report any suspicious activity . American visitor ...
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The World the Whites Made | |
Sugar Stirs the Universe | |
Racism Resistance Rebellion and Revolution | |
Abolishing the Slave Trade | |
Slavery and Apprenticeship | |
Sugar for North America | |
The Sugar Diasporas | |
Meet and Eat Me in St Louis | |
Sugars Legacies and Prospects | |
Notes | |
Select Bibliography | |
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