Sugar: A Bittersweet HistoryDuckworth Overlook, 2009 - 453 páginas In 'Sugar', Elizabeth Abbott takes a spoonful of sugar & tells its extraordinary story, from its origins in the South Pacific, to the way it transformed eating habits in the 19th century, fuelled the Industrial Revolution, & generated a brutal new form of slavery & colonial oppression in the developing world. |
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... Big Sugar began to recruit West Indians , who could be controlled by the threat of deportation . ( Puerto Ricans , who could not be deported , were not welcome . ) The federal government helpfully negotiated the contracts and assumed ...
... Big Sugar began to recruit West Indians , who could be controlled by the threat of deportation . ( Puerto Ricans , who could not be deported , were not welcome . ) The federal government helpfully negotiated the contracts and assumed ...
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... Big Sugar scoffs at its environmental critics . Here , for example , is U.S. Sugar spokesman Otis Wragg III : " One hundred years ago we called this place a swamp , and we drained it . Now we call it a fragile ecosystem . " 641 Between ...
... Big Sugar scoffs at its environmental critics . Here , for example , is U.S. Sugar spokesman Otis Wragg III : " One hundred years ago we called this place a swamp , and we drained it . Now we call it a fragile ecosystem . " 641 Between ...
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... Sugar , Confectionery , and Consumers in Nineteenth- century America ... Sugar Beet Workers ' Strike of 1903 , ” in Working People of California , edited by ... Big Sugar , " Vanity Fair , Feb. 2001 . Paolo Carrozza , " Bartolomé de Las ...
... Sugar , Confectionery , and Consumers in Nineteenth- century America ... Sugar Beet Workers ' Strike of 1903 , ” in Working People of California , edited by ... Big Sugar , " Vanity Fair , Feb. 2001 . Paolo Carrozza , " Bartolomé de Las ...
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The Oriental Delight Conquers the West | 9 |
The Africanization of the Cane Fields | 75 |
The World the Whites Made | 121 |
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