Sugar: The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y1QL31Q |
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| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
We can only fully understand this modern problem by coming to terms with its genesis and history - and we need to consider the historical relationship between society and sweetness over a long historical span. Walvin's book is the heir to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power, a brilliant sociological account but now 30 years old. It is also an historical story. For all its recent origins, today's obesity epidemic - if that is what it is - did not emerge overnight but instead evolved from a complexity of historical forces which stretch back centuries. To take a simple example, two centuries ago cane sugar was vital to the burgeoning European domestic and colonial economies. The story of mankind's love of sweetness - the need to consume honey, cane sugar, beet sugar and chemical sweeteners - has important historica