The world of sugar : how the sweet stuff transformed our politics, health, and environment over 2,000 years /

"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,...

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Tác giả chính: Bosma, Ulbe (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023.
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Mục lục:
  • 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.