The World of Sugar : : How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years / / Ulbe Bosma.
The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic.For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and ex...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9780674293311 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)642357 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Bosma, Ulbe, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The World of Sugar : How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years / Ulbe Bosma. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (464 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Timeline -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- 1 Asia’s World of Sugar -- 2 Sugar Going West -- 3 War and Slavery -- 4 Science and Steam -- 5 State and Industry -- 6 Slavery Stays -- 7 Crisis and Wonder Cane -- 8 Global Sugar, National Identities -- 9 American Sugar Kingdom -- 10 Rising Protectionism -- 11 The Proletariat -- 12 Failed Decolonization -- 13 Corporate Sugar -- 14 Sweeter Than Nature -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Image Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic.For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and extracting it from plants takes hard work and ingenuity. Granulated sugar was first produced in India around the sixth century BC, yet for almost 2,500 years afterward sugar remained marginal in the diets of most people. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How did sugar find its way into almost all the food we eat, fostering illness and ecological crisis along the way?The World of Sugar begins with the earliest evidence of sugar production. Through the Middle Ages, traders brought small quantities of the precious white crystals to rajahs, emperors, and caliphs. But after sugar crossed the Mediterranean to Europe, where cane could not be cultivated, demand spawned a brutal quest for supply. European cravings were satisfied by enslaved labor; two-thirds of the 12.5 million Africans taken across the Atlantic were destined for sugar plantations. By the twentieth century, sugar was a major source of calories in diets across Europe and North America.Sugar transformed life on every continent, creating and destroying whole cultures through industrialization, labor migration, and changes in diet. Sugar made fortunes, corrupted governments, and shaped the policies of technocrats. And it provoked freedom cries that rang with world-changing consequences. In Ulbe Bosma’s definitive telling, to understand sugar’s past is to glimpse the origins of our own world of corn syrup and ethanol and begin to see the threat that a not-so-simple commodity poses to our bodies, our environment, and our communities. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Sugar trade History. Sugar History. HISTORY / World. bisacsh "a. american sugar kingdom. artificial sweeteners. barbados. beet. caribbean. consumption. cooperatives. corporation. cuba. dumping. export. global capitalism. imperialism. jamaica. java. peasant. protectionism. slavery. west indies. workers. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English 9783111319131 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 9783111318189 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110749700 print 9780674279391 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674293311?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674293311 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674293311/original |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Bosma, Ulbe, Bosma, Ulbe, |
spellingShingle |
Bosma, Ulbe, Bosma, Ulbe, The World of Sugar : How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Timeline -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- 1 Asia’s World of Sugar -- 2 Sugar Going West -- 3 War and Slavery -- 4 Science and Steam -- 5 State and Industry -- 6 Slavery Stays -- 7 Crisis and Wonder Cane -- 8 Global Sugar, National Identities -- 9 American Sugar Kingdom -- 10 Rising Protectionism -- 11 The Proletariat -- 12 Failed Decolonization -- 13 Corporate Sugar -- 14 Sweeter Than Nature -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Image Credits -- Index |
author_facet |
Bosma, Ulbe, Bosma, Ulbe, |
author_variant |
u b ub u b ub |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Bosma, Ulbe, |
title |
The World of Sugar : How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years / |
title_sub |
How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years / |
title_full |
The World of Sugar : How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years / Ulbe Bosma. |
title_fullStr |
The World of Sugar : How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years / Ulbe Bosma. |
title_full_unstemmed |
The World of Sugar : How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years / Ulbe Bosma. |
title_auth |
The World of Sugar : How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Timeline -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- 1 Asia’s World of Sugar -- 2 Sugar Going West -- 3 War and Slavery -- 4 Science and Steam -- 5 State and Industry -- 6 Slavery Stays -- 7 Crisis and Wonder Cane -- 8 Global Sugar, National Identities -- 9 American Sugar Kingdom -- 10 Rising Protectionism -- 11 The Proletariat -- 12 Failed Decolonization -- 13 Corporate Sugar -- 14 Sweeter Than Nature -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Image Credits -- Index |
title_new |
The World of Sugar : |
title_sort |
the world of sugar : how the sweet stuff transformed our politics, health, and environment over 2,000 years / |
publisher |
Harvard University Press, |
publishDate |
2023 |
physical |
1 online resource (464 p.) |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Timeline -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- 1 Asia’s World of Sugar -- 2 Sugar Going West -- 3 War and Slavery -- 4 Science and Steam -- 5 State and Industry -- 6 Slavery Stays -- 7 Crisis and Wonder Cane -- 8 Global Sugar, National Identities -- 9 American Sugar Kingdom -- 10 Rising Protectionism -- 11 The Proletariat -- 12 Failed Decolonization -- 13 Corporate Sugar -- 14 Sweeter Than Nature -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Image Credits -- Index |
isbn |
9780674293311 9783111319292 9783111318912 9783111319131 9783111318189 9783110749700 9780674279391 |
callnumber-first |
T - Technology |
callnumber-subject |
TX - Home Economics |
callnumber-label |
TX560 |
callnumber-sort |
TX 3560 S9 B67 42023 |
url |
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674293311?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674293311 https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674293311/original |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
600 - Technology |
dewey-tens |
640 - Home & family management |
dewey-ones |
641 - Food & drink |
dewey-full |
641.3/36 |
dewey-sort |
3641.3 236 |
dewey-raw |
641.3/36 |
dewey-search |
641.3/36 |
doi_str_mv |
10.4159/9780674293311?locatt=mode:legacy |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT bosmaulbe theworldofsugarhowthesweetstufftransformedourpoliticshealthandenvironmentover2000years AT bosmaulbe worldofsugarhowthesweetstufftransformedourpoliticshealthandenvironmentover2000years |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)642357 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
is_hierarchy_title |
The World of Sugar : How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
_version_ |
1770176234892820480 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>05947nam a22009855i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9780674293311</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20230529101353.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">230529t20232023mau fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780674293311</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.4159/9780674293311</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)642357</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">mau</subfield><subfield code="c">US-MA</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">TX560.S9</subfield><subfield code="b">B67 2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HIS037000</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">641.3/36</subfield><subfield code="2">23/eng/20221007</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Bosma, Ulbe, </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">The World of Sugar :</subfield><subfield code="b">How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years /</subfield><subfield code="c">Ulbe Bosma.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Cambridge, MA : </subfield><subfield code="b">Harvard University Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2023]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (464 p.)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Timeline -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Dramatis Personae -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Introduction -- </subfield><subfield code="t">1 Asia’s World of Sugar -- </subfield><subfield code="t">2 Sugar Going West -- </subfield><subfield code="t">3 War and Slavery -- </subfield><subfield code="t">4 Science and Steam -- </subfield><subfield code="t">5 State and Industry -- </subfield><subfield code="t">6 Slavery Stays -- </subfield><subfield code="t">7 Crisis and Wonder Cane -- </subfield><subfield code="t">8 Global Sugar, National Identities -- </subfield><subfield code="t">9 American Sugar Kingdom -- </subfield><subfield code="t">10 Rising Protectionism -- </subfield><subfield code="t">11 The Proletariat -- </subfield><subfield code="t">12 Failed Decolonization -- </subfield><subfield code="t">13 Corporate Sugar -- </subfield><subfield code="t">14 Sweeter Than Nature -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Conclusion -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Notes -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Acknowledgments -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Image Credits -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic.For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and extracting it from plants takes hard work and ingenuity. Granulated sugar was first produced in India around the sixth century BC, yet for almost 2,500 years afterward sugar remained marginal in the diets of most people. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How did sugar find its way into almost all the food we eat, fostering illness and ecological crisis along the way?The World of Sugar begins with the earliest evidence of sugar production. Through the Middle Ages, traders brought small quantities of the precious white crystals to rajahs, emperors, and caliphs. But after sugar crossed the Mediterranean to Europe, where cane could not be cultivated, demand spawned a brutal quest for supply. European cravings were satisfied by enslaved labor; two-thirds of the 12.5 million Africans taken across the Atlantic were destined for sugar plantations. By the twentieth century, sugar was a major source of calories in diets across Europe and North America.Sugar transformed life on every continent, creating and destroying whole cultures through industrialization, labor migration, and changes in diet. Sugar made fortunes, corrupted governments, and shaped the policies of technocrats. And it provoked freedom cries that rang with world-changing consequences. In Ulbe Bosma’s definitive telling, to understand sugar’s past is to glimpse the origins of our own world of corn syrup and ethanol and begin to see the threat that a not-so-simple commodity poses to our bodies, our environment, and our communities.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Sugar trade</subfield><subfield code="x">History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Sugar</subfield><subfield code="x">History.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HISTORY / World.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">"a.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">american sugar kingdom.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">artificial sweeteners.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">barbados.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">beet.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">caribbean.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">consumption.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">cooperatives.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">corporation.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">cuba.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">dumping.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">export.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">global capitalism.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">imperialism.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">jamaica.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">java.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">peasant.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">protectionism.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">slavery.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">west indies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">workers.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English</subfield><subfield code="z">9783111319292</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023</subfield><subfield code="z">9783111318912</subfield><subfield code="o">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English</subfield><subfield code="z">9783111319131</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023</subfield><subfield code="z">9783111318189</subfield><subfield code="o">ZDB-23-DEG</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110749700</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9780674279391</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674293311?locatt=mode:legacy</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674293311</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674293311/original</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-074970-0 Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023</subfield><subfield code="b">2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-131913-1 EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English</subfield><subfield code="b">2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-131929-2 EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English</subfield><subfield code="b">2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_HICS</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_HICS</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DEG</subfield><subfield code="b">2023</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="b">2023</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |