Sweetness and Power

• Author : Sidney W. Mintz
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 1986-08-05
• Total pages : 320
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of ...

• Author : Wendy A. Woloson
• Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
• Release Date : 2003-04-30
• Total pages : 376
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : A look at sugar in 19th-century American culture and how it rose in popularity to gain its place in the nation’s diet today. American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked to hyperactivity in children and other health concerns. Yet two hundred years ...

• Author : Michael R. Hall
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release Date : 2000
• Total pages : 163
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : Examines the powerful impact and development that the sugar industry had on U.S.-Dominican relations as the primary vehicle of reciprocal manipulation from 1958 to 1962....

• Author : Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2014-08-27
• Total pages : 312
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 – 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using a combination of chronological and thematic discussion, taking a comprehensive and wide-reaching view of a subject that has long been on the historical agenda. The title explores the topic from ...

• Author : Jon Stobart
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2016-12-01
• Total pages : 320
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : Consumers in eighteenth-century England were firmly embedded in an expanding world of goods, one that incorporated a range of novel foods (tobacco, chocolate, coffee, and tea) and new supplies of more established commodities, including sugar, spices, and dried fruits. Much has been written about the attraction of these goods, which ...

• Author : David Brion Davis
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2008-06-05
• Total pages : 440
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : The author's lifetime of insight as the leading authority on slavery in the Western world is summed up in this compelling narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism in a sweeping and compelling history of the institution of slavery ...

• Author : Alf Ludtke
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 1995-05-21
• Total pages : 318
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : Alltagsgeschichte, or the history of everyday life, emerged during the 1980s as the most interesting new field among West German historians and, more recently, their East German colleagues. Partly in reaction to the modernization theory pervading West German social history in the 1970s, practitioners of alltagsgeschichte stressed the complexities of ...

• Author : Michael E Oakes
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-10-24
• Total pages : 145
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : Bad Foods demonstrates how a variety of historical or political events and personalities have shaped our current views of good nutrition. On several occasions in American history concerns have arisen over the safety of our food supply (e.g., harmful ingredients in processed foods) and the potential that processing might ...

• Author : Kathryn Cornell Dolan
• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• Release Date : 2014-12
• Total pages : 272
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : Agriculture in the United States has changed dramatically in the last two hundred years. Economic transformation marked by the expansion of the industrial economy and big business has contributed to an increase in industrial food production. Amid this change, policymakers and cultural critics have debated the best way to produce ...

• Author : John Brewer,Roy Porter
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release Date : 1994
• Total pages : 564
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : Provides an insight into the historical and cultural roots of mass consumerism....

• Author : Paula M. Hirschoff
• Publisher : IRRI
• Release Date : 1989
• Total pages : 193
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : Download or read online Completing the Food Chain written by Paula M. Hirschoff, published by IRRI which was released on 1989. Get Completing the Food Chain Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Woodruff D. Smith
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release Date : 2002
• Total pages : 339
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : Tying together of several distinct cultural patterns during this century to create a culture of respectability and its impact on popular culture, trade, politics, social dynamics, and literature, this original and thoughtful work provides a comprehensive and much-needed understanding of the origins of modern consumption and all of its cultural ...

• Author : R. Jon McGee,Richard L. Warms
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release Date : 2013-08-28
• Total pages : 1056
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology are rich subjects with deep connections in the social and physical sciences. Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded so greatly that no single individual can command all of it. Consequently, both advanced students and professionals may be ...

• Author : Bartow J. Elmore
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 2014-11-03
• Total pages : 432
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : "Citizen Coke demostrate[s] a complete lack of understanding about . . . the Coca-Cola system—past and present." —Ted Ryan, the Coca-Cola Company How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but the real formula to Coke’...

• Author : Michael I. Goran,Luc Tappy,Kim-Anne Le
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2014-12-10
• Total pages : 418
• ISBN : 1101666641

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Summary : Sugar consumption is suspected to play an important role in the pathogenesis of diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, fatty liver disease, and some forms of cancers. Dietary sugars-fructose in particular-also have a potential role in obesity and metabolic diseases.Dietary Sugars and Health presents all aspects of dietary sugars as they relate ...