[Free read ebook] Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
• Sidney W. Mintz •
| #16877 in Books | Penguin Books | 1986-08-05 | 1986-08-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.70 x.60 x5.00l,.49 | File Name: 0140092331 | 274 pages | Great product!
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Clearly a classic in the world of food studies, ...|By Ai|Clearly a classic in the world of food studies, and in some ways, definitely worthy of that title. I struggled to get through this book at first--his rapid global history of sugar production bounced rapidly through time and was difficult to slog through to get to his arguments about the English working class. Once I did||"Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior." -The New York of Books||"Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed hi
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 g...
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