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Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
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Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity Hardcover - 2018

by James Walvin

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  • Title Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
  • Author James Walvin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pegasus Books
  • Date 2018-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781681776774 / 1681776774
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.4 in (23.62 x 14.99 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sugar - History, Sugar - Health aspects
  • Dewey Decimal Code 572.565

About the author

James Walvin is the author of several books on slavery and modern social history, including Crossings and A Jamaican Plantation. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2008 was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship. He lives in England.

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Pegasus Books. New. New Pegasus Books, 2018-04-03 New How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic?Prior to 1600, sugar was a costly luxury, the domain of the rich But with the rise of the sugar colonies in the New World over the following century, sugar became cheap, ubiquitous and an everyday necessity Less than fifty years ago, few people suggested that sugar posed a global health problem And yet today, sugar is regularly denounced as a dangerous addiction, on a par with tobacco While sugar consumption remains higher than ever?in some countries as high as 100lbs per head per year?some advertisements even proudly proclaim that their product contains no sugarHow did sugar grow from prize to pariah? Acclaimed historian James Walvin looks at the history of our collective sweet tooth, beginning with the sugar grown by enslaved people who had… Read More
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