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 130
... absentees retreated to gracious colonial cities , or to Fifth Avenue in New York , leaving their estates in the hands ... absentee society . " 247 This widespread defection from the sugar estates was just as true in the rest of the sugar ...
... absentees retreated to gracious colonial cities , or to Fifth Avenue in New York , leaving their estates in the hands ... absentee society . " 247 This widespread defection from the sugar estates was just as true in the rest of the sugar ...
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... absentees against critics , denying that they were vulgarly ostentatious social climbers who fawned on patrician ... absentee planters ' reputation . They were their own worst enemies . They traveled in showy carriages driven by ...
... absentees against critics , denying that they were vulgarly ostentatious social climbers who fawned on patrician ... absentee planters ' reputation . They were their own worst enemies . They traveled in showy carriages driven by ...
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... absentee planters , served as a colonial officer and established businesses . One was the sale of lace and other dry goods such as sugar bags and scissors , which he ordered from his family in Bristol . As was common in the chronically ...
... absentee planters , served as a colonial officer and established businesses . One was the sale of lace and other dry goods such as sugar bags and scissors , which he ordered from his family in Bristol . As was common in the chronically ...
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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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