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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

by Sidney Mintz

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Publisher Comments:

"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 Review of Books.
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. Food, Sociality, and Sugar

2. Production

3. Consumption

4. Power

5. Eating and Being

Bibliography

Notes

Index

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780140092332
Author:
Mintz, Sidney W.
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Author:
Mintz, Sidney W.
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Agriculture & Animal Husbandry
Subject:
Customs & Traditions
Subject:
Social history
Subject:
Modern - General
Subject:
Sugar
Subject:
Sugar trade
Subject:
Sugar trade -- Social aspects -- History.
Subject:
World History-1650 to Present
Copyright:
c198
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series Volume:
no. E-85-22002
Publication Date:
19860831
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
7.78x5.16x.60 in. .49 lbs.
Age Level:
from 18
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