Sugar In The Social Life Of Medieval Islam
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Sugar In The Social Life Of Medieval Islam
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Author : Tsugitaka Sato
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-01-08
Sugar In The Social Life Of Medieval Islam written by Tsugitaka Sato and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-08 with History categories.
In Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam Tsugitaka Sato explores the actual day-to-day life in medieval Muslim societies through different aspects of sugar. Drawing from a wealth of historical sources - chronicles, geographies, travel accounts, biographies, medical and pharmacological texts, and more - he describes sugarcane cultivation, sugar production, the sugar trade, and sugar’s use as a sweetener, a medicine, and a symbol of power. He gives us a new perspective on the history of the Middle East, as well as the history of sugar across the world. This book is a posthumous work by a leading scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies in Japan who made many contributions to this field.
Amsterdam S Sephardic Merchants And The Atlantic Sugar Trade In The Seventeenth Century
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Author : Yda Schreuder
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-10-23
Amsterdam S Sephardic Merchants And The Atlantic Sugar Trade In The Seventeenth Century written by Yda Schreuder and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-23 with History categories.
This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the “Portuguese Nation,” conducting trade from the Iberian Peninsula and Brazil. Examining the “Myth of the Dutch,” the “Sephardic Moment,” and the impact of the British Navigation Acts, Yda Schreuder focuses attention on Barbados and Jamaica and demonstrates how Amsterdam remained Europe’s primary sugar refining center through most of the seventeenth century and how Sephardic merchants played a significant role in sustaining the sugar trade.
Sugar
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Author : James Walvin
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-07-13
Sugar written by James Walvin and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-13 with History categories.
An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises fundamental questions about our world.' Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University and the author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History, in the New York Times 'A brilliant and thought-provoking history of sugar and its ironies' Bee Wilson, Wall Street Journal 'Shocking and revelatory . . . no other product has so changed the world, and no other book reveals the scale of its impact.' David Olusoga 'This study could not be more timely.' Laura Sandy, Lecturer in the History of Slavery, University of Liverpool The story of sugar, and of mankind's desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an historical story. The story of mankind's love of sweetness - the need to consume honey, cane sugar, beet sugar and chemical sweeteners - has important historical origins. To take a simple example, two centuries ago, cane sugar was vital to the burgeoning European domestic and colonial economies. For all its recent origins, today's obesity epidemic - if that is what it is - did not emerge overnight, but instead evolved from a complexity of historical forces which stretch back centuries. We can only fully understand this modern problem, by coming to terms with its genesis and history: and we need to consider the historical relationship between society and sweetness over a long historical span. This book seeks to do just that: to tell the story of how the consumption of sugar - the addition of sugar to food and drink - became a fundamental and increasingly troublesome feature of modern life. Walvin's book is the heir to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power, a brilliant sociological account, but now thirty years old. In addition, the problem of sugar, and the consequent intellectual and political debate about the role of sugar, has been totally transformed in the years since that book's publication.
The Biscuit
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Author : Lizzie Collingham
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-10-29
The Biscuit written by Lizzie Collingham and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with History categories.
Bourbons. Custard Creams. Rich Tea. Jammie Dodgers. Chocolate Digestives. Shortbread. Ginger snaps. Which is your favourite? British people eat more biscuits than any other nation; they are as embedded in our culture as fish and chips or the Sunday roast. We follow the humble biscuit's transformation from durable staple for sailors, explorers and colonists to sweet luxury for the middling classes to comfort food for an entire nation. Like an assorted tin of biscuits, this charming and beautifully illustrated book has something to offer for everyone, combining recipes for hardtack and macaroons, Shrewsbury biscuits and Garibaldis, with entertaining and eye-opening vignettes of social history.
The World Of Sugar
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Author : Ulbe Bosma
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-09
The World Of Sugar written by Ulbe Bosma and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with Business & Economics categories.
Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a mania in the West, transforming diets and ecosystems, destroying and creating cultures, and shaping the history of bondage and freedom. A major source of calories only since 1900, sugar has suddenly revolutionized our world.
Abraham S Luggage
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Author : Elizabeth Lambourn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-18
Abraham S Luggage written by Elizabeth Lambourn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with History categories.
A single, unique document - a list of one merchant's baggage - is the starting point used to bring to life the twelfth-century Indian Ocean. Drawing connections between material culture, foodstuffs and the construction of identity, Lambourn examines notions of home and mobility at a key moment in world history.
Medieval Fare
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Author : Martha M. Daas
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-09-28
Medieval Fare written by Martha M. Daas and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-28 with History categories.
Unique in its cultural and religious makeup, medieval Iberia represented a crossroads of cultures. This crossroads was reflected in large and small ways. On a grand scale, we see the convergence of intellectual ideas and great innovations in agriculture and science. On a more intimate level, we see an intersection of cultures as reflected in habits of consumption. The acts of producing food, cooking, and eating demonstrate the political realities of the land: at times interdependent, and, at times, at odds. Food, as an archeological and anthropological tool, can help us understand a particular moment in time. In considering the nature of consumption, we may arrive at the heart of a culture. In Medieval Fare, the author explores food references found in a number of medieval Iberian texts in order to expand our knowledge of daily life in the Middle Ages. By examining the depiction of food and consumption, this pioneering study provides insight into the cultural, religious, and social complexities of medieval Iberia.
Studies On The History And Culture Of The Mamluk Sultanate 1250 1517
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Author : Stephan Conermann
language : en
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Release Date : 2021-03-08
Studies On The History And Culture Of The Mamluk Sultanate 1250 1517 written by Stephan Conermann and has been published by V&R Unipress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-08 with History categories.
The general field of study of this volume is the history and culture of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517). It contains the proceedings of the First German-Japanese Workshop held at the Toyo Bunko in Tokyo, Japan. The authors write about a variety of topics from rural irrigation systems to high diplomacy vis à vis the Safavid empire and the Ottoman threat. The volume includes case studies of important personalities and families living in the centres of Mamluk power such as Cairo and Damascus as well as analyses of contemporary writers and their stance toward the ruling military class. Next to innovation in the field, this volume is an agenda of an increasing globalisation of scholarship that is fertilizing future research.
Minority Influences In Medieval Society
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Author : Nora Berend
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-29
Minority Influences In Medieval Society written by Nora Berend and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-29 with History categories.
This book investigates how minorities contributed to medieval society, comparing these contributions to majority society’s perceptions of the minority. In this volume the contributors define ‘minority’ status as based on a group’s relative position in power relations, that is, a group with less power than the dominant group(s). The chapters cover both what modern historians call ‘religious’ and ‘ethnic’ minorities (including, for example, Muslims in Latin Europe, German-speakers in Central Europe, Dutch in England, Jews and Christians in Egypt), but also address contemporary medieval definitions; medieval writers distinguished between ‘believers’ and ‘infidels’, between groups speaking different languages and between those with different legal statuses. The contributors reflect on patterns of influence in terms of what majority societies borrowed from minorities, the ways in which minorities contributed to society, the mechanisms in majority society that triggered positive or negative perceptions, and the function of such perceptions in the dynamics of power. The book highlights structural and situational similarities as well as historical contingency in the shaping of minority influence and majority perceptions. The chapters in this book were originally published as special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.
Insatiable Appetite Food As Cultural Signifier In The Middle East And Beyond
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Author : Kirill Dmitriev
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-09-24
Insatiable Appetite Food As Cultural Signifier In The Middle East And Beyond written by Kirill Dmitriev and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-24 with History categories.
Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean and Arab-Muslim countries.