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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... bagasse for their own animals . They worried that hunger would drive their cows or pigs to break into the estate's pastureland to graze . When this happened , the overseer would punish the straying crea- ture's owner or even kill the ...
... bagasse for their own animals . They worried that hunger would drive their cows or pigs to break into the estate's pastureland to graze . When this happened , the overseer would punish the straying crea- ture's owner or even kill the ...
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... bagasse . " In the face of economic challenges , " Mike Garvey of WWF - Canada opines , " Cuba has become known for its conservation efforts . " 659 Just as the environment has benefited from Cuban sugar's decline , it could benefit ...
... bagasse . " In the face of economic challenges , " Mike Garvey of WWF - Canada opines , " Cuba has become known for its conservation efforts . " 659 Just as the environment has benefited from Cuban sugar's decline , it could benefit ...
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... bagasse is used to fatten cattle . Its molasses leavings are processed into potassium - rich “ raffinate " for use as fertilizer . The lime used to extract sugar from beet is reused to neutralize and prepare farmland . Whether in beet ...
... bagasse is used to fatten cattle . Its molasses leavings are processed into potassium - rich “ raffinate " for use as fertilizer . The lime used to extract sugar from beet is reused to neutralize and prepare farmland . Whether in beet ...
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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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