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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... lives and culture of millions of the Africans and others imported to work sugar plantations . Producers of other commodities also adopted this new form of coerced labor , which spread throughout the Americas , including to what became ...
... lives and culture of millions of the Africans and others imported to work sugar plantations . Producers of other commodities also adopted this new form of coerced labor , which spread throughout the Americas , including to what became ...
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... lives . The sugar lords controlled every aspect of their slaves ' life , even their gender and their height . " They understood the barbarous nature of sugar work and the almost constant need for fresh bodies , " and believed that ...
... lives . The sugar lords controlled every aspect of their slaves ' life , even their gender and their height . " They understood the barbarous nature of sugar work and the almost constant need for fresh bodies , " and believed that ...
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... lives easier and more gracious . Their dream of owning land was a different story , and only a few achieved it . Over time the Freedman's Bureau was forced to restore all the confiscated plantations that had been their only possible ...
... lives easier and more gracious . Their dream of owning land was a different story , and only a few achieved it . Over time the Freedman's Bureau was forced to restore all the confiscated plantations that had been their only possible ...
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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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