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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... estate to John Frederick , his only surviving child . John Frederick was raised in England while attorneys managed his ... estates at least once a decade to prevent feckless agents from running them into the ground . John Frederick's ...
... estate to John Frederick , his only surviving child . John Frederick was raised in England while attorneys managed his ... estates at least once a decade to prevent feckless agents from running them into the ground . John Frederick's ...
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... estates . But this provided opportunities for new owners , which invigorated the plantocracy . Some small owners used their compensation to expand their holdings or to speculate . Knowledgeable estate managers scooped up likely planta ...
... estates . But this provided opportunities for new owners , which invigorated the plantocracy . Some small owners used their compensation to expand their holdings or to speculate . Knowledgeable estate managers scooped up likely planta ...
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... estates . Ramon O. Williams , the U.S. consul to Havana , reported in a dispatch that “ de facto , Cuba is already inside the commercial union of the United States . The whole commercial machinery of Cuba depends upon the sugar market ...
... estates . Ramon O. Williams , the U.S. consul to Havana , reported in a dispatch that “ de facto , Cuba is already inside the commercial union of the United States . The whole commercial machinery of Cuba depends upon the sugar market ...
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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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