The world of sugar : how the sweet stuff transformed our politics, health, and environment over 2,000 years / Ulbe Bosma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bosma, Ulbe, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sugar trade--History.

Sugar trade.

Sugar--History.

Sugar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

How the sweet stuff transformed our politics, health, and environment over 2,000 years

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a mania in the West, transforming diets and ecosystems, destroying and creating cultures, and shaping the history of bondage and freedom. A major source of calories only since 1900, sugar has suddenly revolutionized our world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Timeline

Dramatis Personae

Introduction

1 Asia’s World of Sugar

2 Sugar Going West

3 War and Slavery

4 Science and Steam

5 State and Industry

6 Slavery Stays

7 Crisis and Wonder Cane

8 Global Sugar, National Identities

9 American Sugar Kingdom

10 Rising Protectionism

11 The Proletariat

12 Failed Decolonization

13 Corporate Sugar

14 Sweeter Than Nature

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

Image Credits

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-428) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Bosma, Ulbe The World of Sugar

ISBN:

9780674293328

0674293320

9780674293311

0674293312

OCLC:

1377202984