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 171
... West Indian plantation owner , president of the Privy Council for Trade , and a fervent advocate for the West Indian Interest , including the slave trade and slave owners . Like Charles Pinney , West Indians held municipal offices ...
... West Indian plantation owner , president of the Privy Council for Trade , and a fervent advocate for the West Indian Interest , including the slave trade and slave owners . Like Charles Pinney , West Indians held municipal offices ...
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... West Indies , was tottering from structural weakness . ” The revolution propped it up and delayed its total collapse ... Indian sugar should be ended , and East Indian sugar allowed into England on the same terms . The West Indians ...
... West Indies , was tottering from structural weakness . ” The revolution propped it up and delayed its total collapse ... Indian sugar should be ended , and East Indian sugar allowed into England on the same terms . The West Indians ...
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... West and East 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 ...
... West and East 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 ...
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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