Sugar
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Sugar

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Sugar

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How did sugar grow from prize to pariah? Acclaimed historian James Walvin looks at the history of our collective sweet tooth, beginning with the sugar grown by enslaved people who had been uprooted and shipped vast distances to undertake the grueling labor on plantations. The combination of sugar and slavery would transform the tastes of the Western world. Prior to 1600, sugar was a costly luxury, the domain of the rich. But with the rise of the sugar colonies in the New World over the following century, sugar became cheap, ubiquitous, and an everyday necessity. Less than fifty years ago, few people suggested that sugar posed a global health problem. And yet today, sugar is regularly denounced as a dangerous addiction, on a par with tobacco. Masterfully insightful and probing, James Walvin reveals the relationship between society and sweetness over the past two centuries— and how it explains our conflicted relationship with sugar today.

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2018
ISBN
9781681777207
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction Sugar in Our Time
  6. 1. A Traditional Taste
  7. 2. The March of Decay
  8. 3. Sugar and Slavery
  9. 4. Environmental Impact
  10. 5. Shopping for Sugar
  11. 6. A Perfect Match for Tea and Coffee
  12. 7. Pandering to the Palate
  13. 8. Rum Makes its Mark
  14. 9. Sugar Goes Global
  15. 10. The Sweetening of America
  16. 11. Power Shifts in the New World
  17. 12. A Sweeter War and Peace
  18. 13. Obesity Matters
  19. 14. The Way We Eat Now
  20. 15. Hard Truth About Soft Drinks
  21. 16. Turning the Tide – Beyond the Sugar Tax
  22. Conclusion Bitter-Sweet Prospects
  23. Bibliography and Further Reading
  24. Numbered References
  25. Acknowledgements
  26. Index
  27. Also by James Walvin
  28. Copyright