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 148
... important founding blocks of the British Empire . The eighteenth - century Abbé Raynal went further , exclaiming that the " scorned [ sugar ] islands ... double perhaps triple the activity of the whole of Europe . They can be regarded ...
... important founding blocks of the British Empire . The eighteenth - century Abbé Raynal went further , exclaiming that the " scorned [ sugar ] islands ... double perhaps triple the activity of the whole of Europe . They can be regarded ...
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... important decisions . News of a hurricane , a slave uprising , a measles epidemic or a war usually raised prices , whereas increased supplies of sugar beet or East Indian sugarcane , or the addition of such sugar sources as Trinidad and ...
... important decisions . News of a hurricane , a slave uprising , a measles epidemic or a war usually raised prices , whereas increased supplies of sugar beet or East Indian sugarcane , or the addition of such sugar sources as Trinidad and ...
Página 371
... importance of sugar and warned against skimping on it : " It is essential to the balance of flavor in a good cake ... important , crucial morsels that defined and determined social standing and degree of refinement : how you were with ...
... importance of sugar and warned against skimping on it : " It is essential to the balance of flavor in a good cake ... important , crucial morsels that defined and determined social standing and degree of refinement : how you were with ...
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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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