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Sweetness and power : the place of sugar in modern history

text Sweetness and power : the place of sugar in modern history

Summary
In this book the author 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 consumptio... Read more
Contents

Food, sociality, and sugar -- Production -- Consumption -- Power -- Eating and being.

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Description
xxx, 274 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Publisher
Penguin Books 1986

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 394.1 MIN in Adult Non-fiction Available

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