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 37
... land had been planted with cane , with the rest given to pasture , forest , crops to provision the workforce or cash crops . But as knowledge of sugar culture spread , and its profitability increased , sugar literally took over the new ...
... land had been planted with cane , with the rest given to pasture , forest , crops to provision the workforce or cash crops . But as knowledge of sugar culture spread , and its profitability increased , sugar literally took over the new ...
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... land to those who stayed and , in 1873 , five acres plus £ 5 for additional land . Their wives received an additional £ 5 and took advantage of the opportunity to buy land with it , gaining economic independence , social status , a ...
... land to those who stayed and , in 1873 , five acres plus £ 5 for additional land . Their wives received an additional £ 5 and took advantage of the opportunity to buy land with it , gaining economic independence , social status , a ...
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... land . Furthermore , its peasants could not be forced off their land to be transformed into low - paid workers on newly created plantations , as happened in Java and Latin America . The Indian Sugar Committee , appointed in 1920 to ...
... land . Furthermore , its peasants could not be forced off their land to be transformed into low - paid workers on newly created plantations , as happened in Java and Latin America . The Indian Sugar Committee , appointed in 1920 to ...
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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