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Sweetness And Power
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Author : Sidney W. Mintz
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1986-08-05
Sweetness And Power written by Sidney W. Mintz and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-08-05 with History categories.
A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle
Sweetness And Power
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Author : Sidney W. Mintz
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1986-08-05
Sweetness And Power written by Sidney W. Mintz and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-08-05 with History categories.
A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle
Sweetness And Power
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Author : Sidney W. Mintz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
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Sugar And Civilization
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Author : April Merleaux
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-07-13
Sugar And Civilization written by April Merleaux and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-13 with History categories.
In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory parties and commemorations prominently featured candy and other sweets, Americans saw sugar as the reward for their global ambitions. April Merleaux demonstrates that trade policies and consumer cultures are as crucial to understanding U.S. empire as military or diplomatic interventions. As the nation's sweet tooth grew, people debated tariffs, immigration, and empire, all of which hastened the nation's rise as an international power. These dynamics played out in the bureaucracies of Washington, D.C., in the pages of local newspapers, and at local candy counters. Merleaux argues that ideas about race and civilization shaped sugar markets since government policies and business practices hinged on the racial characteristics of the people who worked the land and consumed its products. Connecting the history of sugar to its producers, consumers, and policy makers, Merleaux shows that the modern American sugar habit took shape in the shadow of a growing empire.
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.
Special Issue Sweetness And Power
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Author : Amy Bentley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Special Issue Sweetness And Power written by Amy Bentley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
The World Of Soy
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Author : Christine M. Du Bois
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2008
The World Of Soy written by Christine M. Du Bois and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Food habits categories.
Raising Cane In The Glades
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Author : Gail M. Hollander
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-11-15
Raising Cane In The Glades written by Gail M. Hollander and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-15 with Science categories.
Over the last century, the Everglades underwent a metaphorical and ecological transition from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland. At the heart of this transformation lies the Florida sugar industry, which by the 1990s was at the center of the political storm over the multi-billion dollar ecological “restoration” of the Everglades. Raising Cane in the ’Glades is the first study to situate the environmental transformation of the Everglades within the economic and historical geography of global sugar production and trade. Using, among other sources, interviews, government and corporate documents, and recently declassified U.S. State Department memoranda, Gail M. Hollander demonstrates that the development of Florida’s sugar region was the outcome of pitched battles reaching the highest political offices in the U.S. and in countries around the world, especially Cuba—which emerges in her narrative as a model, a competitor, and the regional “other” to Florida’s “self.” Spanning the period from the age of empire to the era of globalization, the book shows how the “sugar question”—a label nineteenth-century economists coined for intense international debates on sugar production and trade—emerges repeatedly in new guises. Hollander uses the sugar question as a thread to stitch together past and present, local and global, in explaining Everglades transformation.
The Oxford Companion To Sugar And Sweets
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Author : Darra Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Companions
Release Date : 2015
The Oxford Companion To Sugar And Sweets written by Darra Goldstein and has been published by Oxford Companions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Cooking categories.
"Celebrating sugar while acknowledging its complex history, 'The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets' is the definitive guide to one of humankind's greatest sources of pleasure"--
Traveling With Sugar
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Author : Amy Moran-Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2019-12-03
Traveling With Sugar written by Amy Moran-Thomas and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-03 with Social Science categories.
Traveling with Sugar reframes the rising diabetes epidemic as part of a five-hundred-year-old global history of sweetness and power. Amid eerie injuries, changing bodies, amputated limbs, and untimely deaths, many people across the Caribbean and Central America simply call the affliction “sugar”—or, as some say in Belize, “traveling with sugar.” A decade in the making, this book unfolds as a series of crónicas—a word meaning both slow-moving story and slow-moving disease. It profiles the careful work of those “still fighting it” as they grapple with unequal material infrastructures and unsettling dilemmas. Facing a new incarnation of blood sugar, these individuals speak back to science and policy misrecognitions that have prematurely cast their lost limbs and deaths as normal. Their families’ arts of maintenance and repair illuminate ongoing struggles to survive and remake larger systems of food, land, technology, and medicine.