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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... Cuba was America's principal supplier . For 250 years , Cuban sugar had been a minor crop usually grown by cattle ranchers . During the Seven Years ' War , Britain had briefly occu- pied Cuba and jump - started the island's sugar ...
... Cuba was America's principal supplier . For 250 years , Cuban sugar had been a minor crop usually grown by cattle ranchers . During the Seven Years ' War , Britain had briefly occu- pied Cuba and jump - started the island's sugar ...
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... Cuban sugar estates . Ramon O. Williams , the U.S. consul to Havana , reported in a dispatch that “ de facto , Cuba is already inside the commercial union of the United States . The whole commercial machinery of Cuba depends upon the sugar ...
... Cuban sugar estates . Ramon O. Williams , the U.S. consul to Havana , reported in a dispatch that “ de facto , Cuba is already inside the commercial union of the United States . The whole commercial machinery of Cuba depends upon the sugar ...
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... Sugar in Colonial Cuba , p . 63 . 465. Quoted in ibid . , p . 87 . 466. Rachel Wilson Moore , The Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore , quoted in Perez , Slaves , Sugar ... Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production , discusses this on pp . 74–75 , ...
... Sugar in Colonial Cuba , p . 63 . 465. Quoted in ibid . , p . 87 . 466. Rachel Wilson Moore , The Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore , quoted in Perez , Slaves , Sugar ... Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production , discusses this on pp . 74–75 , ...
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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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