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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... cane , ” the most widely grown . All sugarcane is from the Graminaea grass family . Saccharum officinarum is tall ... fields . A nineteenth - century Scotswoman described sailing Antigua's " carpet of luxuriant green , for a little rain ...
... cane , ” the most widely grown . All sugarcane is from the Graminaea grass family . Saccharum officinarum is tall ... fields . A nineteenth - century Scotswoman described sailing Antigua's " carpet of luxuriant green , for a little rain ...
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... cane fields . The Great Gang's work was onerous , dangerous and , under hot- tempered drivers and the even hotter sun , debilitating . In July or August , they prepared the land for planting , slashing and burning grass , shrubs and old ...
... cane fields . The Great Gang's work was onerous , dangerous and , under hot- tempered drivers and the even hotter sun , debilitating . In July or August , they prepared the land for planting , slashing and burning grass , shrubs and old ...
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... cane fields ; sabotaging property , equipment and tools ; stealing and working carelessly and slowly . They also protested against the reduction of their pay rates , halved in 1930 , and against being cheated at the cane - weighing ...
... cane fields ; sabotaging property , equipment and tools ; stealing and working carelessly and slowly . They also protested against the reduction of their pay rates , halved in 1930 , and against being cheated at the cane - weighing ...
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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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