Sugar

A Bittersweet History

• Author(s): Elizabeth Abbott,
• Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
• Pages: 453
• ISBN_10: 0715638785
  ISBN_13: 9780715638781
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Industries / Agribusiness , History / Social History ,

Description:... In 'Sugar', Elizabeth Abbott takes a spoonful of sugar & tells its extraordinary story, from its origins in the South Pacific, to the way it transformed eating habits in the 19th century, fuelled the Industrial Revolution, & generated a brutal new form of slavery & colonial oppression in the developing world.