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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... Maroon women were agriculturists , their men hunters and warriors . Because Maroons usually lived in a state of perpetual warfare , wartime measures were routine and offensive rather than extraordinary and defensive . White militias ...
... Maroon women were agriculturists , their men hunters and warriors . Because Maroons usually lived in a state of perpetual warfare , wartime measures were routine and offensive rather than extraordinary and defensive . White militias ...
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... Maroons marketed their goods , disguising them- selves as free blacks or as slaves with passes . The market was a primary source of their supplies , especially ammunition . In 1730 , Jamaican Maroons captured two literate white boys and ...
... Maroons marketed their goods , disguising them- selves as free blacks or as slaves with passes . The market was a primary source of their supplies , especially ammunition . In 1730 , Jamaican Maroons captured two literate white boys and ...
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... Maroons . ( The Dutch had to do the same when they sued for peace with their Maroons in Surinam . ) Blood drawn from black and white signatories was mixed with rum and quaffed as a “ blood treaty . ” The treaty of 1738/9 declared that ...
... Maroons . ( The Dutch had to do the same when they sued for peace with their Maroons in Surinam . ) Blood drawn from black and white signatories was mixed with rum and quaffed as a “ blood treaty . ” The treaty of 1738/9 declared that ...
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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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