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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... Fanjuls ' Okeelanta Corporation eventually paid each deportee $ 1,000 for lost possessions , and Alfonso Fanjul admitted , “ We mishandled the Dog War and I am sorry that it was handled that way . ' " 638 Alfonso " Alfy " Fanjul and his ...
... Fanjuls ' Okeelanta Corporation eventually paid each deportee $ 1,000 for lost possessions , and Alfonso Fanjul admitted , “ We mishandled the Dog War and I am sorry that it was handled that way . ' " 638 Alfonso " Alfy " Fanjul and his ...
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... Fanjuls ' ] influence . " 640 So does their nick- name — the First Family of Corporate Welfare — a reference to the fact that the Fanjuls benefit hugely from the sugar program . In 1989 , in a class action suit on behalf of twenty ...
... Fanjuls ' ] influence . " 640 So does their nick- name — the First Family of Corporate Welfare — a reference to the fact that the Fanjuls benefit hugely from the sugar program . In 1989 , in a class action suit on behalf of twenty ...
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... Fanjul praised Clinton as " a great president . " The administration of George W. Bush further emasculated the ... Fanjuls are also Sugar Kings , the politics of sugar are as unrefined as cane stalks . The country's history helps ...
... Fanjul praised Clinton as " a great president . " The administration of George W. Bush further emasculated the ... Fanjuls are also Sugar Kings , the politics of sugar are as unrefined as cane stalks . The country's history helps ...
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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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