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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922- Sweetness and power. New York : Penguin Books, 1986, c1985 (OCoLC)646968332 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sidney Wilfred Mintz |
| ISBN: | 0140092331 9780140092332 |
| OCLC Number: | 13124498 |
| Notes: | "Elisabeth Sifton books." |
| Description: | xxx, 274 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Food, sociality, and sugar -- Production -- Consumption -- Power -- Eating and being. |
| Responsibility: | Sidney W. Mintz. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
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 consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins 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.
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