Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern HistoryPenguin Publishing Group, 1986 M08 5 - 320 páginas A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle |
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... capitalism , as it is commonly conceived , had not yet even appeared ? Most students of capitalism ( though not all ) believe that capi- talism itself became a governing economic form in the late eighteenth century and not before . But ...
... capitalism , as it is commonly conceived , had not yet even appeared ? Most students of capitalism ( though not all ) believe that capi- talism itself became a governing economic form in the late eighteenth century and not before . But ...
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... capitalism . " 66 But would this mean that capitalism somehow existed before the capitalist mode of production ? The plantations that sup- plied Europe with sugar , tobacco , etc. , were presumably noncapi- talist , for their labor ...
... capitalism . " 66 But would this mean that capitalism somehow existed before the capitalist mode of production ? The plantations that sup- plied Europe with sugar , tobacco , etc. , were presumably noncapi- talist , for their labor ...
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... capitalists . " 69 Yet elsewhere he wrote , " The fact that we now not only call the plantation owners in Amer- ica capitalists , but that they are capitalists , is based on their existence as anomalies within a world market based on ...
... capitalists . " 69 Yet elsewhere he wrote , " The fact that we now not only call the plantation owners in Amer- ica capitalists , but that they are capitalists , is based on their existence as anomalies within a world market based on ...
Contenido
Food Sociality and Sugar | 3 |
Production | 19 |
Consumption | 74 |
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History Sidney W. Mintz Vista previa limitada - 1986 |
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History Sidney W. Mintz Vista previa limitada - 1986 |
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History Sidney Wilfred Mintz Vista de fragmentos - 1985 |
Términos y frases comunes
Africa agricultural anthropology Arab Barbados became become Bemba beverages bitter bread Britain British British West Indies calories candy capitalism capitalist carbohydrates Caribbean changes chocolate classes coffee colonies commodities consumed consumption of sugar course cultural dessert drink Drummond and Wilbraham early eaten eating economic eighteenth century England English cuisine Europe European figures French fruit habits history of sugar honey human Ibid important increase islands Jamaica Jeronymites juice labor labor power less liquid London luxury meal meanings meat medicine mill modern molasses nation nineteenth century nutrition per-capita plantation planters poor pounds price of sugar probably proletarian puddings Puerto Rico quantities refined rich seventeenth century sixteenth century slave slavery social society spice substances sucrose sugar cane sugar consumption sugar industry sugar production sumption sweet sweetened syrup taste tea and sugar tobacco trade transformed treacle tropical United Kingdom West Indian Wilbraham 1958
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