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Author Abbott, Elizabeth.

Title Sugar : a bittersweet history / Elizabeth Abbott.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Duckworth Overlook, 2009.
©2008

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 Bloomfield at the Atrium  633.6 ABB    In Transit
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  633.6 ABBOTT    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  633.6 ABB    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  633.6 ABBOTT    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  633.61 ABBOTT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  633.6 AB26    Check Shelf
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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  338.1736 AB    Check Shelf
Description x, 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note "First published in 2008 by Penguin Group (Canada)"--t.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-440) and index.
Contents Part 1: The oriental delight conquers the world -- The reign of sugar begins -- The proletarianization of sugar -- Part 2: Black sugar -- The Africanization of the cane fields -- The world the whites made -- Sugar stirs the universe -- Part 3: Abolition through resistance and parliament -- Racism, resistance, rebellion and revolution -- Blood in the sugar : abolishing the slave trade -- Slaying monsters : slavery and apprenticeship -- Cuba and Louisiana : sugar for North America -- Part 4: The sweetening world -- The sugar diasporas -- Meet and eat me in St. Louis! -- Sugar's legacies and prospects -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Credits.
Subject Sugar -- History.
Sugar -- Social aspects.
Sugar -- Health aspects.
Sugar crops -- History.
Sugar plantations -- History.
Sugar trade -- History.
Sugar trade -- Social aspects.
Sugar trade -- Environmental aspects.
ISBN 9781590202975
159020297X
9780715638781 UK hardback
0715638785 UK hardback
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