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Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time. Although initial attempts by British planters in India...
Series
International studies in social history volume 18
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
