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
... numbers of the planters , perhaps 20 percent , fled to Europe , and many stayed there . In Cuba and Brazil ... number of slaves and the largest capital investment could afford to leave . Absentees said they were fleeing the heat and ...
... numbers of the planters , perhaps 20 percent , fled to Europe , and many stayed there . In Cuba and Brazil ... number of slaves and the largest capital investment could afford to leave . Absentees said they were fleeing the heat and ...
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... number but , as respectable white men , contributed a disproportionately influential sixth leg . A seventh consisted of ... numbers of women joining the movement focused their struggle on British sugar bowls and fought their battle with ...
... number but , as respectable white men , contributed a disproportionately influential sixth leg . A seventh consisted of ... numbers of women joining the movement focused their struggle on British sugar bowls and fought their battle with ...
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... numbers of white cane cutters increased , blacks had to compete with them for work . The small numbers of Asians in the sugar industry - Chinese and a few Indians- were also targets of white racism . Because of China's international ...
... numbers of white cane cutters increased , blacks had to compete with them for work . The small numbers of Asians in the sugar industry - Chinese and a few Indians- were also targets of white racism . Because of China's international ...
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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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