Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Sidney W. Mintz with Tom Perkins (Narrator)

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nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. 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 capitalism and industry. He discusses the produc...

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