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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... produced , the the demand for sugar . greater Ice cream became so ubiquitous that in 1850 , the widely read Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book pronounced it one of life's “ necessary luxuries . A party without it would be like a breakfast ...
... produced , the the demand for sugar . greater Ice cream became so ubiquitous that in 1850 , the widely read Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book pronounced it one of life's “ necessary luxuries . A party without it would be like a breakfast ...
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... produced from beet sugar as well as from cane , and from other crops such as corn and grain . In the U.K. , for instance , British Sugar is producing bioethanol to mix with gas . But European interest in beet- derived ethanol is ...
... produced from beet sugar as well as from cane , and from other crops such as corn and grain . In the U.K. , for instance , British Sugar is producing bioethanol to mix with gas . But European interest in beet- derived ethanol is ...
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... produced Cuban sugar to replace that now grown in Florida's wounded Everglades . A bilateral trade agreement would ... produced . Clean sugarcane will seem costlier to produce only because standard economic analyses fail to factor in the ...
... produced Cuban sugar to replace that now grown in Florida's wounded Everglades . A bilateral trade agreement would ... produced . Clean sugarcane will seem costlier to produce only because standard economic analyses fail to factor in the ...
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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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