Sugar: A Bittersweet HistoryIn 'Sugar', Elizabeth Abbott takes a spoonful of sugar & tells its extraordinary story, from its origins in the South Pacific, to the way it transformed eating habits in the 19th century, fuelled the Industrial Revolution, & generated a brutal new form of slavery & colonial oppression in the developing world. |
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The Oriental Delight Conquers the West | 9 |
The Africanization of the Cane Fields | 75 |
The World the Whites Made | 121 |
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