How sugar corrupted the world

By:

Walvin, James

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Great Britain Robinson 2017Description: 325pISBN:

9781472138125

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.17361 WAL

Summary: " 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, but with the rise of the European colonies in the Americas in the seventeenth century, sugar became cheap, ubiquitous and hugely popular -- an everyday necessity. Today, sugar is regularly denounced as a dangerous addiction, on a par with tobacco, and the cause of global epidemics of obesity and diabetes. While consumption remains higher than ever, sugar has become a pariah. Only now is the extensive ecological harm caused by sugar plantations being fully recognised, but it is the brutal human cost, from enslaved Africans to indentured Indians, that has struck us most forcibly in the recent past."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Social Science	338.17361 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000347

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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, but with the rise of the European colonies in the Americas in the seventeenth century, sugar became cheap, ubiquitous and hugely popular -- an everyday necessity. Today, sugar is regularly denounced as a dangerous addiction, on a par with tobacco, and the cause of global epidemics of obesity and diabetes. While consumption remains higher than ever, sugar has become a pariah. Only now is the extensive ecological harm caused by sugar plantations being fully recognised, but it is the brutal human cost, from enslaved Africans to indentured Indians, that has struck us most forcibly in the recent past."

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