TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mintz,Sidney Wilfred
TI  - Sweetness and power: the place of sugar in modern history 
T2  - Penguin book
SN  - 0140092331 (pbk.)
AV  - GT2869 .M56 1986
U1  - 394.1/2 
PY  - 1986///, c1985
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Sugar
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Sugar trade
KW  - Sucre
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Commerce
N1  - "Elisabeth Sifton books."; Includes index; Bibliography: p. [215]-227; Food, sociality, and sugar -- Production -- Consumption -- Power -- Eating and being; 98 09 25
N2  - In this book the author 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 production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times
ER  -