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Sweetness and Power

The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Sidney W. Mintz - Author

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ISBN 9780140092332 | 320 pages | 05 Aug 1986 | Penguin | 5.55 x 7.75in | 18 - AND UP
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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.
Sweetness and Power - Sidney W. Mintz

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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