Sugar : a bittersweet history / Elizabeth Abbott.

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    • Content Notes:
      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.
    • Notes:
      "First published in 2008 by Penguin Group (Canada)"--t.p. verso.
      Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-440) and index.
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    • ISBN:
      9781590202975
      159020297X
      9780715638781 (UK : hbk.)
      0715638785 (UK : hbk.)
    • Accession Number:
      426803433
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.482197