The World of Sugar How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years
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4275
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
30.05.2025
Verlag
Harvard University PressSeitenzahl
448
Maße (L/B/H)
20,8/13,8/3,3 cm
Gewicht
422 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-674-29908-5
"An extraordinary achievement." -David Edgerton, Literary Review
"A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry have shaped the world in which we live." -Gary Taubes, author of The Case Against Sugar
For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How did sugar find its way into almost all the food we eat, fostering illness and ecological crisis along the way?¿
The World of Sugar begins with the earliest evidence of sugar production, tracing its origins in India around the sixth century BC and showing how its introduction to Europe in the Middle Ages spawned a brutal quest for supply. European cravings were satisfied by enslaved labor; two-thirds of the 12.5 million Africans taken across the Atlantic were destined for sugar plantations. By the twentieth century, sugar was a major source of calories in diets across Europe and North America.¿
Sugar transformed life on every continent, creating and destroying whole cultures through industrialization, labor migration, and changes in diet. Sugar made fortunes, corrupted governments, and shaped the policies of technocrats. And it provoked freedom cries that rang with world-changing consequences. In Ulbe Bosma's definitive telling, to understand sugar's past is to glimpse the origins of our own world of corn syrup and ethanol and begin to see the threat that a not-so-simple commodity poses to our bodies, our environment, and our communities.
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