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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... sold his ice cream to street vendors . In the late eighteenth century , a Frenchman who had fled Revolutionary France sold ice cream on the streets of New York , and a French traveler reported , " Nothing was more amusing than to watch ...
... sold his ice cream to street vendors . In the late eighteenth century , a Frenchman who had fled Revolutionary France sold ice cream on the streets of New York , and a French traveler reported , " Nothing was more amusing than to watch ...
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... sold to its West Indian colonies , which supplied sugar and other tropical commodities to the metropolis , which ... sold to slavers who traded it for slaves they sold to the West Indian planters for more molasses . France's sugar ...
... sold to its West Indian colonies , which supplied sugar and other tropical commodities to the metropolis , which ... sold to slavers who traded it for slaves they sold to the West Indian planters for more molasses . France's sugar ...
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... sold as demi - royal . Various other qualities of sugar were produced for the wider poorer market . In the national spirit of internecine commercial rivalry , French refineries competed with each other rather than trying to expand their ...
... sold as demi - royal . Various other qualities of sugar were produced for the wider poorer market . In the national spirit of internecine commercial rivalry , French refineries competed with each other rather than trying to expand their ...
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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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