Sugar: A Bittersweet HistorySugar: 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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User Review - Katong - LibraryThingWas disappointed in this, although it did have its moments. Parts were undigested, and it lacked a real overview and global perspective somehow. That being said, i devoured the detail on the West Indian lobby and British sugar traders. Read full review
Contents
The Oriental Delight Conquers the West | 9 |
The Africanization of the Cane Fields | 75 |
The World the Whites Made | 121 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Sugar: A Bittersweet History |
| Author | Elizabeth Abbott |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Penguin Canada, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0143017136, 9780143017134 |
| Length | 453 pages |
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