Sugar : a bittersweet history

Author

Elizabeth Abbott

Call Number

• 633.6 A131 (CEN)

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Publication Information

London ; New York : Duckworth Overlook, 2009, c2008.

Physical Description

x, 453 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes

"First published in 2008 by Penguin Group (Canada)"--t.p. verso.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part 1: The oriental delight conquers the world
• 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.