Sweetness and Power : The Place of Sugar in Modern History,9780140092332

Sweetness and Power : The Place of Sugar in Modern History

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780140092332
ISBN10: 0140092331
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-02-01
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary

"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.

Author Biography

Sidney W. Mintz was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University, where he taught anthropology. His academic specialization focused on the anthropology of food, with a particular focus on the consumption and commodification of sugar. His works include Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past; The World of Soy; and Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. He died in 2015.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix(4)
List of Illustrations
xiii(2)
Introduction xv
1 Food, Sociality, and Sugar
3(16)
2 Production
19(55)
3 Consumption
74(77)
4 Power
151(36)
5 Eating and Being
187(28)
Bibliography 215(13)
Notes 228(33)
Index 261

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