Sugar : : a Bittersweet History

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"First published in 2008 by Penguin Group (Canada)"--t.p. verso.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: The oriental delight conquers the world -- The reign of sugar begins -- The proletarianization of sugar -- Part 2: Black sugar -- The Africanization of the cane fields -- The world the whites made -- Sugar stirs the universe -- Part 3: Abolition through resistance and parliament -- Racism, resistance, rebellion and revolution -- Blood in the sugar : abolishing the slave trade -- Slaying monsters : slavery and apprenticeship -- Cuba and Louisiana : sugar for North America -- Part 4: The sweetening world -- The sugar diasporas -- Meet and eat me in St. Louis! -- Sugar's legacies and prospects -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Credits.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Duckworth Overlook, 2009, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: x, 453 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0715638785
9781590202975
159020297X
9780715638781

SUBJECTS
Sugar -- History.
Sugar -- Social aspects.
Sugar -- Health aspects.
Sugar crops -- History.
Sugar plantations -- History.
Sugar trade -- History.
Sugar trade -- Social aspects.
Sugar trade -- Environmental aspects.