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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Página 331
... Chinese women could come only as residents rather than as indentured workers . The Chinese indenture experience in the British West Indies was plagued by the same abuses as the Indian , and when they were freed , most Chinese fled the ...
... Chinese women could come only as residents rather than as indentured workers . The Chinese indenture experience in the British West Indies was plagued by the same abuses as the Indian , and when they were freed , most Chinese fled the ...
Página 332
... Chinese officials reported that “ almost every Chinese met by us was or had been undergoing suffering . The fractured and maimed limbs , blindness , the heads full of sores , the skin and flesh lacerated- proofs of cruelty patent to the ...
... Chinese officials reported that “ almost every Chinese met by us was or had been undergoing suffering . The fractured and maimed limbs , blindness , the heads full of sores , the skin and flesh lacerated- proofs of cruelty patent to the ...
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... China's sugar legacy is unique because , unlike almost all other peoples , the Chinese have never used sugar as food and , in consequence , it is still not an item of mass consumption there . The Chinese chew cane stalks and drink ...
... China's sugar legacy is unique because , unlike almost all other peoples , the Chinese have never used sugar as food and , in consequence , it is still not an item of mass consumption there . The Chinese chew cane stalks and drink ...
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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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