Sugar: A Bittersweet History

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Duckworth 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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The Oriental Delight Conquers the West
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The Africanization of the Cane Fields
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The World the Whites Made
121
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