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The history of sweets / Paul Chrystal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chrystal, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Candy--History.
- Candy.
- Confectionery--History.
- Confectionery.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, Yorkshire : Pen and Sword History, 2021.
- Summary:
- This book tells the story of sweets from their primitive beginnings to their place today as a billion pound commodity with its sophisticated, seductive packaging and sales, advertising and marketing.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 A Sweet Timeline
- ch. 2 How it all Started: Honey, Fruit and Nuts in Downtown Cairo?
- ch. 3 The Rise and Rise of Sugar
- ch. 4 `A Spoonful of Sugar...': Sweets as Spurious Medicine
- ch. 5 Cultural Issues: Rationing, Racism, Smoking Sweets, Women's Rights
- ch. 6 Sugar and Slavery
- ch. 7 Poisoning Sweets: Adulteration
- ch. 8 Special Sweets: Liquorice, Chewing Gum, Rock, Candy Floss, Gobstoppers, Jelly Babies, Dolly Mixtures
- ch. 9 Chocolate's History
- ch. 10 The Quakers and Chocolate
- ch. 11 The Quaker Triumvirate
- ch. 12 Chocolate Manufacturers in the United Kingdom
- ch. 13 Marketing Chocolate and Sweets
- ch. 14 Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
- ch. 15 The Dark Side of the Sweet: Obesity, Diabetes, Bad Teeth, and Choking to Death
- ch. 16 Twenty-one Sweets from Around the World
- ch. 17 Some UK Sweet Manufacturers
- ch. 18 `The Oldest Sweet Shop', Pateley Bridge, the Star Rock Shop, Kirriemuir, and Jubilee Confectioners, Beamish
- ch. 19 Quotable Sweets
- ch. 20 Sweets in Music & Literature: `taking candy from a baby' ...
- ch. 21 The Future: Fairtrade, Health and the Internet.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1526778858
- 9781526778857
- OCLC:
- 1190832459
- Publisher Number:
- 99988363911
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