Sugar: A Bittersweet HistoryPenguin Canada, 2008 - 453 páginas Sugar: A Bittersweet History offers a perceptive and provocative investigation of a commodity that most of us savour every day yet know little about. Impressively researched and commandingly written, this thoroughly engaging book follows the history of sugar to the present day. It is a revealing look at how sugar changed the nature of meals, fuelled the Industrial Revolution, generated a brutal new form of slavery, and jumpstarted the fast-food revolution. |
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... Big Sugar began to recruit West Indians , who could be controlled by the threat of deportation . ( Puerto Ricans , who could not be deported , were not welcome . ) The federal government helpfully negotiated the contracts and assumed ...
... Big Sugar began to recruit West Indians , who could be controlled by the threat of deportation . ( Puerto Ricans , who could not be deported , were not welcome . ) The federal government helpfully negotiated the contracts and assumed ...
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... Big Sugar scoffs at its environmental critics . Here , for example , is U.S. Sugar spokesman Otis Wragg III : " One hundred years ago we called this place a swamp , and we drained it . Now we call it a fragile " 641 Between 1990 and 1998 , ...
... Big Sugar scoffs at its environmental critics . Here , for example , is U.S. Sugar spokesman Otis Wragg III : " One hundred years ago we called this place a swamp , and we drained it . Now we call it a fragile " 641 Between 1990 and 1998 , ...
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... Sugar Reform , before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture , July 26 , 2000 . 637. Unnamed cane cutter quoted in Wilkinson , Big Sugar , p . 82 . 638. Quoted in Brenner , “ In the Kingdom of Big Sugar , " Vanity Fair , Feb. 2001 ...
... Sugar Reform , before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture , July 26 , 2000 . 637. Unnamed cane cutter quoted in Wilkinson , Big Sugar , p . 82 . 638. Quoted in Brenner , “ In the Kingdom of Big Sugar , " Vanity Fair , Feb. 2001 ...
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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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