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Author:

Abbott, Elizabeth.

Title:

Sugar : a bittersweet history / Elizabeth Abbott.

Publisher:

Duckworth Overlook,

Copyright Date:

2009, c2008

Description:

x, 453 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

"First published in 2008 by Penguin Group (Canada)"--t.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-440) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"Sugar" offers a compelling and surprising look at the sweet commodity, from the ways in which it Africanized the cane fields of the Caribbean to how it fueled the Industrial Revolution and jump-started the fast-food craze.

ISBN:

0715638785 (UK : hbk.)
9780715638781 (UK : hbk.)
159020297X
9781590202975

OCLC:

(OCoLC)426803433

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)