Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

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"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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"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.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780140092332
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/28/1986
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 125,797
  • Product dimensions: 5.16 (w) x 7.76 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction
1. Food, Sociality, and Sugar
2. Production
3. Consumption
4. Power
5. Eating and Being Bibliography Notes Index

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