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a bittersweet history

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Duckworth Overlook
Language
English
Pages
453

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Sugar: A Bittersweet History
Sep 27, 2011, Harry N. Abrams
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Sugar: A Bittersweet History
2011, ABRAMS (Ignition)
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Sugar: A Bittersweet History
Nov 01, 2010, Duckworth Overlook
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Sugar: a bittersweet history
2009, Duckworth Overlook
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: The oriental delight conquers the world
The reign of sugar begins
The proletarianization of sugar
Part 2: Black sugar
The Africanization of the cane fields
The world the whites made
Sugar stirs the universe
Part 3: Abolition through resistance and parliament
Racism, resistance, rebellion and revolution
Blood in the sugar : abolishing the slave trade
Slaying monsters : slavery and apprenticeship
Cuba and Louisiana : sugar for North America
Part 4: The sweetening world
The sugar diasporas
Meet and eat me in St. Louis!
Sugar's legacies and prospects
Notes
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Index
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Edition Notes

"First published in 2008 by Penguin Group (Canada)"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-440) and index.

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London, New York

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Pagination
x, 453 p.
Number of pages
453

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Open Library
OL26884608M
Internet Archive
sugarbittersweet0000abbo
ISBN 10
159020297X
ISBN 13
9781590202975
OCLC/WorldCat
426803433

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