Sugar, a bittersweet history, Elizabeth Abbott
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Sugar, a bittersweet history, Elizabeth Abbott
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-440) and index
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illustrations
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Sugar
Nature of contents
bibliography
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426803433
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Elizabeth Abbott
Sub title
a bittersweet history
Table Of Contents
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: The oriental delight conquers the West -- The reign of sugar begins -- The proletarianization of sugar -- Part 2: Black sugar -- The Africanization of the cane fields -- The world the whites made -- Sugar stirs the universe -- Part 3: Abolition through resistance and parliament -- Racism, resistance, rebellion and revolution -- Blood in the sugar : abolishing the slave trade -- Slaying monsters : slavery and apprenticeship -- Cuba and Louisiana : sugar for North America -- Part 4: The sweetening world -- The sugar diasporas -- Meet and eat me in St. Louis! -- Sugar's legacies and prospects -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Credits
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