Sweetness And Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History - Hardcover

Mintz, Sidney W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670687022 ISBN 13: 9780670687022

Publisher: Viking, 1985

Synopsis

Traces the history of sugar production and consumption, examines its relationship with slavery, class ambitions, and industrialization, and describes sugar's impact on modern diet and eating habits

About this title

Review:

"Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior." -The New York Review of Books

"Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle

"A fine book. It not only tells a fascinating story, it is also something of an antidote to the static quality of much anthropological writing." -Jack Goody, The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Sidney W. Mintz was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University, where he taught anthropology. His academic specialization focused on the anthropology of food, with a particular focus on the consumption and commodification of sugar. His works include Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past; The World of Soy; and Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. He died in 2015.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0670687022
• ISBN 13: 9780670687022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320