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The world of sugar : how the sweet stuff transformed our politics, health, and environment over 2,000 years /
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| 자료유형 | E-Book |
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| 개인저자 | Bosma, Ulbe, 1962-, author. |
| 서명/저자사항 | The world of sugar :how the sweet stuff transformed our politics, health, and environment over 2,000 years /Ulbe Bosma. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN | 9780674293311 0674293312 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Asia's World of Sugar -- Sugar Going West -- War and Slavery -- Science and Steam -- State and Industry -- Slavery Stays -- Crisis and Wonder Cane -- Global Sugar, National Identities -- American Sugar Kingdom -- Rising Protectionism -- The Proletariat -- Failed Decolonization -- Corporate Sugar -- Sweeter Than Nature. |
| 요약 | "The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic. For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and extracting it from plants takes hard work and ingenuity. Granulated sugar was first produced in India around the sixth century BC, yet for almost 2,500 years afterward sugar remained marginal in the diets of most people. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How did sugar find its way into almost all the food we eat, fostering illness and ecological crisis along the way? The World of Sugar begins with the earliest evidence of sugar production. Through the Middle Ages, traders brought small quantities of the precious white crystals to rajahs, emperors, and caliphs. But after sugar crossed the Mediterranean to Europe, where cane could not be cultivated, demand spawned a brutal quest for supply. European cravings were satisfied by enslaved labor; two-thirds of the 12.5 million Africans taken across the Atlantic were destined for sugar plantations. By the twentieth century, sugar was a major source of calories in diets across Europe and North America. Sugar transformed life on every continent, creating and destroying whole cultures through industrialization, labor migration, and changes in diet. Sugar made fortunes, corrupted governments, and shaped the policies of technocrats. And it provoked freedom cries that rang with world-changing consequences. In Ulbe Bosma's definitive telling, to understand sugar's past is to glimpse the origins of our own world of corn syrup and ethanol and begin to see the threat that a not-so-simple commodity poses to our bodies, our environment, and our communities"-- |
| 일반주제명 | Sugar -- History. Sugar trade -- History. Sugar. Sugar trade. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
| 대출바로가기 | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3520443 |
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