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 174
... sugar was in great demand and at high prices.309 The planters alone applauded sugar's new high prices . English grocers and refiners complained bitterly , and argued strongly that the privileged position of West Indian sugar should be ...
... sugar was in great demand and at high prices.309 The planters alone applauded sugar's new high prices . English grocers and refiners complained bitterly , and argued strongly that the privileged position of West Indian sugar should be ...
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... Indian sugar interests were now in open conflict . It was futile to deny that East Indian sugar was cheaper and produced by free laborers and that , unlike the West Indies , East Indian sugar planta- tions cost Britain nothing to ...
... Indian sugar interests were now in open conflict . It was futile to deny that East Indian sugar was cheaper and produced by free laborers and that , unlike the West Indies , East Indian sugar planta- tions cost Britain nothing to ...
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... Indian sugar interest , who had an obvious interest in free trade and promoted it through self - serving declarations against slave - grown sugar , though they failed to create an East Indian abolitionist bloc . Other reform- ers ...
... Indian sugar interest , who had an obvious interest in free trade and promoted it through self - serving declarations against slave - grown sugar , though they failed to create an East Indian abolitionist bloc . Other reform- ers ...
Contenido
The Oriental Delight Conquers the West | 9 |
The Africanization of the Cane Fields | 75 |
The World the Whites Made | 121 |
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