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 271
... sugar duties were repealed , and slave - grown sugar was no longer excluded from the domestic market . Cuba's slave - holding planters , who by 1845 already exported 22 million pounds of sugar , half their production , to Britain ...
... sugar duties were repealed , and slave - grown sugar was no longer excluded from the domestic market . Cuba's slave - holding planters , who by 1845 already exported 22 million pounds of sugar , half their production , to Britain ...
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... sugar regions began to appear in Louisiana . The more powerful the mills ... sugar . REDEMPTION After years of being battered by discriminatory legislation , economic ... production should operate , between militant employers and Cuba and ...
... sugar regions began to appear in Louisiana . The more powerful the mills ... sugar . REDEMPTION After years of being battered by discriminatory legislation , economic ... production should operate , between militant employers and Cuba and ...
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... sugar and politics , 393–96 ; sugar beet industry , 277–78 ; sugar industry , 273 ; sugar prices , 177 ; sugar production , 278 , 377 ; technological changes , 273-74 ; Ten Years War , 276-77 , 387 ; trade , 271 ; and U.S. , 275 , 276 ...
... sugar and politics , 393–96 ; sugar beet industry , 277–78 ; sugar industry , 273 ; sugar prices , 177 ; sugar production , 278 , 377 ; technological changes , 273-74 ; Ten Years War , 276-77 , 387 ; trade , 271 ; and U.S. , 275 , 276 ...
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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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