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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... beet root when boiled yields a juice similar to syrup sugar , " 321 and a century later , German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf produced sugar crystals indistinguishable from cane sugar crystals by slicing , drying and pulverizing ...
... beet root when boiled yields a juice similar to syrup sugar , " 321 and a century later , German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf produced sugar crystals indistinguishable from cane sugar crystals by slicing , drying and pulverizing ...
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... beet sugar , which , though produced by “ enemy aliens ” toiling alongside native and new Canadians , was promoted as a " patri- otic " commodity . At the end of the war , interned workers were released from the beet fields and new ...
... beet sugar , which , though produced by “ enemy aliens ” toiling alongside native and new Canadians , was promoted as a " patri- otic " commodity . At the end of the war , interned workers were released from the beet fields and new ...
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A Bittersweet History Elizabeth Abbott. they have much lower energy yields than sugar beet and cane . Beet sugar uses only 100.5 energy units to produce 150 energy units compared with wheat's 136.5 , though wheat is superior to gasoline ...
A Bittersweet History Elizabeth Abbott. they have much lower energy yields than sugar beet and cane . Beet sugar uses only 100.5 energy units to produce 150 energy units compared with wheat's 136.5 , though wheat is superior to gasoline ...
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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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