Full name: Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Author: Sidney W. Mintz Year: 1985 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Economics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140092332 0140092331

Traces the history of sugar production and consumption, examines its relationship with slavery, class ambitions, and industrialization, and describes sugar's impact on modern diet and eating habits. Similar books: The Transformation of the World by Jurgen Osterhammel The Noblest Triumph by Tom Bethell Wedding of the Waters by Peter L. Bernstein Medieval Cities by Henri Pirenne Hamilton's Blessing by John Steele Gordon Industry and Empire by Eric Hobsbawm The Market Revolution by Charles Sellers The Great Divergence by Kenneth Pomeranz War and Gold by Kwasi Kwarteng The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis The Lords of Creation by Frederick Lewis Allen Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil There Is Power in a Union by Philip Dray America's Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard