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 238
... Planters : or the Advantage Shown of an Equitable Purchase of the Monopoly and Bounty on West India Sugar " argued that free - grown East Indian sugar should be substituted for slave - grown West Indian . To catch the attention of ...
... Planters : or the Advantage Shown of an Equitable Purchase of the Monopoly and Bounty on West India Sugar " argued that free - grown East Indian sugar should be substituted for slave - grown West Indian . To catch the attention of ...
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... planters reshaped Cuban rural society for the benefit of the production and export of what had become Big Sugar . Ironically , Haiti's exit from the sugar market transformed Cuba into a sugar slavocracy . Until the Haitian Revolution ...
... planters reshaped Cuban rural society for the benefit of the production and export of what had become Big Sugar . Ironically , Haiti's exit from the sugar market transformed Cuba into a sugar slavocracy . Until the Haitian Revolution ...
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... planters needed credit that was difficult to obtain now that they had lost their primary capital investment : slaves . “ The attacks of needy and delinquent Planters today was enough to worry you out of all patience , " one factor ...
... planters needed credit that was difficult to obtain now that they had lost their primary capital investment : slaves . “ The attacks of needy and delinquent Planters today was enough to worry you out of all patience , " one factor ...
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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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