Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Sidney Wilfred Mintz

Viking, 1985 - Business & Economics - 274 pages

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"Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior."-The New York Review of Books.

In thid book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. ...Google Books

Originally published: 1985

Author: Sidney Mintz

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