Sugar
Subtitle: a bittersweet history
By: Elizabeth Abbott
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9781590202975
Subjects: Social aspects; Environmental aspects; Sugar crops; Sugar; Sugar trade; Sugar plantations; Health aspects; History
Notes: "First published in 2008 by Penguin Group (Canada)"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-440) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Part 1: The oriental delight conquers the world; title: The reign of sugar begins; title: The proletarianization of sugar; title: Part 2: Black sugar; title: The Africanization of the cane fields; title: The world the whites made; title: Sugar stirs the universe; title: Part 3: Abolition through resistance and parliament; title: Racism, resistance, rebellion and revolution; title: Blood in the sugar : abolishing the slave trade; title: Slaying monsters : slavery and apprenticeship; title: Cuba and Louisiana : sugar for North America; title: Part 4: The sweetening world; title: The sugar diasporas; title: Meet and eat me in St. Louis!; title: Sugar's legacies and prospects; title: Notes; title: Select bibliography; title: Index; title: Credits.