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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... Cuba was America's principal supplier . For 250 years , Cuban sugar had been a minor crop usually grown by cattle ranchers . During the Seven Years ' War , Britain had briefly occu- pied Cuba and jump - started the island's sugar ...
... Cuba was America's principal supplier . For 250 years , Cuban sugar had been a minor crop usually grown by cattle ranchers . During the Seven Years ' War , Britain had briefly occu- pied Cuba and jump - started the island's sugar ...
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... Cubans , now controlled the market for Cuban sugar and , increasingly , Cuban production . Some planters lost their plantations to their creditors , including Americans such as Edwin Atkins , whose family had a long involvement with Cuba ...
... Cubans , now controlled the market for Cuban sugar and , increasingly , Cuban production . Some planters lost their plantations to their creditors , including Americans such as Edwin Atkins , whose family had a long involvement with Cuba ...
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... Cuban sugar estates . Ramon O. Williams , the U.S. consul to Havana , reported in a dispatch that “ de facto , Cuba is already inside the commercial union of the United States . The whole commercial machinery of Cuba depends upon the sugar ...
... Cuban sugar estates . Ramon O. Williams , the U.S. consul to Havana , reported in a dispatch that “ de facto , Cuba is already inside the commercial union of the United States . The whole commercial machinery of Cuba depends upon the sugar ...
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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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