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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... Chinese women could come only as residents rather than as indentured workers . The Chinese indenture experience in the British West Indies was plagued by the same abuses as the Indian , and when they were freed , most Chinese fled the ...
... Chinese women could come only as residents rather than as indentured workers . The Chinese indenture experience in the British West Indies was plagued by the same abuses as the Indian , and when they were freed , most Chinese fled the ...
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... Chinese officials reported that “ almost every Chinese met by us was or had been undergoing suffering . The fractured and maimed limbs , blindness , the heads full of sores , the skin and flesh lacerated- proofs of cruelty patent to the ...
... Chinese officials reported that “ almost every Chinese met by us was or had been undergoing suffering . The fractured and maimed limbs , blindness , the heads full of sores , the skin and flesh lacerated- proofs of cruelty patent to the ...
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... Chinese villages for indentured workers . In 1876 , when Hawaii signed a reciprocity treaty with the United States exempting Hawaiian sugar from import duties and effec- tively making it an American economic colony , the planters ...
... Chinese villages for indentured workers . In 1876 , when Hawaii signed a reciprocity treaty with the United States exempting Hawaiian sugar from import duties and effec- tively making it an American economic colony , the planters ...
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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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