Sugar : a bittersweet history / Elizabeth Abbott.
By: Abbott, Elizabeth.
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Duckworth Overlook, 2009, c2008Description: x, 453 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781590202975 (trade); 159020297X.Subject(s): Sugar -- History | Sugar -- HistoryDDC classification: 338.1/736 Summary: Traces the history of sugar, discussing the introduction of sugar to the Western world, enslaved Africans being sent to work on Caribbean cane plantations, and more; and also reveals how much sugar people consume and health implications in the early twenty-first century.
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Traces the history of sugar, discussing the introduction of sugar to the Western world, enslaved Africans being sent to work on Caribbean cane plantations, and more; and also reveals how much sugar people consume and health implications in the early twenty-first century.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-440) and index.
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