The World Of Sugar: How Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics Health And Environment Over 2 000 Years Ulbe Bosma Harvard University Press Αγγλικά

“[A] Tour De Force Of Global History…Bosma Has Turned The Humble Sugar Crystal Into A Mighty Prism For Understanding Aspects History And World In Which We Live ”—Los Angeles Review Booksthe Definitive 2 500-Year Its Human Costs From Little-Known Origins As Luxury Good Asia To Worldwide Environmental Devastation Obesity Pandemic Most Humans Did Without Refined After All It Serves No Necessary Purpose Our Diets Extracting Plants Takes Hard Work Ingenuity Granulated Was First Produced India Around Sixth Century Bc Yet Almost 500 Years Afterward Remained Marginal People Then Suddenly Everywhere How Find Way Food Eat Fostering Illness Ecological Crisis Along Way?The Begins With Earliest Evidence Production Through Middle Ages Traders Brought Small Quantities Precious White Crystals Rajahs Emperors Caliphs But Crossed Mediterranean Europe Where Cane Could Not Be Cultivated Demand Spawned Brutal Quest Supply European Cravings Were Satisfied By Enslaved Labor Two-Thirds 12 5 Million Africans Taken Across Atlantic Destined Plantations Twentieth Major Source Calories North America Transformed Life On Every Continent Creating Destroying Whole Cultures Industrialization Migration Changes Diet Made Fortunes Corrupted Governments Shaped Policies Technocrats Provoked Freedom Cries That Rang World-Changing Consequences Ulbe Bosma’s Telling Understand Sugar’s Past Is Glimpse Own Corn Syrup Ethanol Begin See Threat Not-So-Simple Commodity Poses Bodies Environment Communities Σελίδες: 464 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0817 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm