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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... Martinique and Dominica , where they lived in seaside villages in sturdy , leaf - roofed houses built around a central fireplace . Like the Tainos , the Caribs farmed and fished , and slept in hammocks . In fact , much of domestic Carib ...
... Martinique and Dominica , where they lived in seaside villages in sturdy , leaf - roofed houses built around a central fireplace . Like the Tainos , the Caribs farmed and fished , and slept in hammocks . In fact , much of domestic Carib ...
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... Martinique . Sometimes they intermarried with black Maroons , or fugitive slaves ; their offspring were known as Black Caribs . Caribs often withdrew to the mountains and from these fortified outposts attacked European settlements ...
... Martinique . Sometimes they intermarried with black Maroons , or fugitive slaves ; their offspring were known as Black Caribs . Caribs often withdrew to the mountains and from these fortified outposts attacked European settlements ...
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... Martinique or St. Domingue (later Haiti), they shared common features dictated by the nature of the crop, the demands of sugar consumers and the goals of the planters. Plantations were self-contained villages with dozens of buildings ...
... Martinique or St. Domingue (later Haiti), they shared common features dictated by the nature of the crop, the demands of sugar consumers and the goals of the planters. Plantations were self-contained villages with dozens of buildings ...
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... Martinique planter estimated that fertilized cane produced 31 percent more sugar , and fertilized ratoon cane 36 percent more . ) 126 Forty slaves planted one acre or approximately 3,500 cane holes per day . By the mid - eighteenth ...
... Martinique planter estimated that fertilized cane produced 31 percent more sugar , and fertilized ratoon cane 36 percent more . ) 126 Forty slaves planted one acre or approximately 3,500 cane holes per day . By the mid - eighteenth ...
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... Energized and comforted, the slaves redoubled their efforts to finish the sugar. “THE. MUSIC. OF. THE. NEGRO. IS. THE. WHIP”: THE. WORKING. LIVES. OF. SUGAR. SLAVES. Martinique's Pierre Dessalles spoke for thousands of other sugar planters.
... Energized and comforted, the slaves redoubled their efforts to finish the sugar. “THE. MUSIC. OF. THE. NEGRO. IS. THE. WHIP”: THE. WORKING. LIVES. OF. SUGAR. SLAVES. Martinique's Pierre Dessalles spoke for thousands of other sugar planters.
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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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