Beschreibung
An important new history of sugar that encompasses both today's obesity epidemic and slavery. Walvin argues that we can only fully understand our contemporary dietary problems by coming to terms with their genesis, considering the relationship between society and sweetness over a long historical span dating back two centuries to a time when sugar was vital to the burgeoning European domestic and colonial economies. The world corrupted - from slavery to obesity.
Produktsicherheitsverordnung
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Autorenportrait
JAMES WALVIN is the author of many books on slavery and modern social history. His book, Crossings, was published by Reaktion Books in 2013. His first book, with Michael Craton, was a detailed study of a sugar plantation: A Jamaican Plantation, Worthy Park, 1670-1970 (Toronto, 1970). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006, and in 2008 was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship.
