How Sugar Corrupted the World

From Slavery to Obesity

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<p><b>How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of the wealthy, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic?</b><br><br>Prior to 1600, sugar was a costly luxury, but with the rise of the European colonies in the Americas in the seventeenth century, sugar became cheap, ubiquitous and hugely popular - an everyday necessity. <br><br>Today, sugar is regularly denounced as a dangerous addiction, on a par with tobacco, and the cause of global epidemics of obesity and diabetes. While consumption remains higher than ever, sugar has become a pariah. <br><br>Only now is the extensive ecological harm caused by sugar plantations being fully recognised, but it is the brutal <i>human</i> cost, from enslaved Africans to indentured Indians, that has struck us most forcibly in the recent past. <br><br>Walvin shows that we can only fully understand our contemporary dietary concerns by coming to terms with the relationship between society and sweetness over a long historical span, dating back two centuries to a time when sugar was vital to the burgeoning European domestic and colonial economies. <br><br>An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, <i>How Sugar Corrupted the World</i> raises fundamental questions about our world.'<br><br>Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University, and author of <i>Empire of Cotton: A Global History</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781472138125

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 123 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Verlag / Hersteller

Little, Brown Book Group