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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... whipping post ( as rogues ) for their masters ' pleasure , and sleeping in sties worse than hogs in England . " Decades later , nothing had changed . “ They are domineered over and used like dogs , ” the governor of Barbados reported.5 ...
... whipping post ( as rogues ) for their masters ' pleasure , and sleeping in sties worse than hogs in England . " Decades later , nothing had changed . “ They are domineered over and used like dogs , ” the governor of Barbados reported.5 ...
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... delicacies including jellies and marmalades , fruits. Design for a sugar ornament of a muscular French poodle pulling a chariot driven by a triumphant winged figure holding a whip . Early 19th century . HIGH TEA AND THE INDUSTRIAL ...
... delicacies including jellies and marmalades , fruits. Design for a sugar ornament of a muscular French poodle pulling a chariot driven by a triumphant winged figure holding a whip . Early 19th century . HIGH TEA AND THE INDUSTRIAL ...
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... were lodged with Creole slaves who could orient them and teach them the rudiments of plantation life , and perhaps moderate the recalcitrance so common in Africans . White overseers welcomed them with the whip, jeers and humiliation.
... were lodged with Creole slaves who could orient them and teach them the rudiments of plantation life , and perhaps moderate the recalcitrance so common in Africans . White overseers welcomed them with the whip, jeers and humiliation.
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... whip and other punishments to force them to work and to obey the plantation's rules. Slaves, their greatest capital investment, simply had to be productive. SUGARCANE PLANTATIONS VARIED in size and structure over time and place but ...
... whip and other punishments to force them to work and to obey the plantation's rules. Slaves, their greatest capital investment, simply had to be productive. SUGARCANE PLANTATIONS VARIED in size and structure over time and place but ...
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... whipping , the sugar planter's standard motivational tool . In Antigua , a young army officer observed “ a huge slave ... whip if they could not keep up the pace . " 132 Cane holing exacted such a toll that many overseers hired jobbing ...
... whipping , the sugar planter's standard motivational tool . In Antigua , a young army officer observed “ a huge slave ... whip if they could not keep up the pace . " 132 Cane holing exacted such a toll that many overseers hired jobbing ...
Contenido
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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