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Sweetness and Power
- The Place of Sugar in Modern History
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Sweetness and Power
Narrated by:
Tom Perkins
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Publisher's Summary
In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz 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 consumption of sugar and reveals how closely interwoven sugar's origins are as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies, with its use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times.
©1985 Sidney W. Mintz (P)2017 Tantor
What the critics say
"Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior." ( The New York Review of Books)
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