{"product_id":"how-sugar-corrupted-the-world","title":"How Sugar Corrupted The World","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn ''entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity''s very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, \u003ci\u003eHow Sugar Corrupted the World \u003c\/i\u003eraises fundamental questions about our world.''\u003cbr\u003eSven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University and the author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Cotton: A Global History,\u003c\/i\u003e in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A brilliant and thought-provoking history of sugar and its ironies''\u003cbr\u003eBee Wilson, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Shocking and revelatory . . . no other product has so changed the world, and no other book reveals the scale of its impact.'' David Olusoga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This study could not be more timely.'' Laura Sandy, Lecturer in the History of Slavery, University of Liverpool\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of sugar, and of mankind''s desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an \u003ci\u003ehistorical\u003c\/i\u003e story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of mankind''s love of sweetness - the need to consume honey, cane sugar, beet sugar and chemical sweeteners - has important \u003ci\u003ehistorical\u003c\/i\u003e origins. To take a simple example, two centuries ago, cane sugar was vital to the burgeoning European domestic and colonial economies. 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. We can only fully understand this \u003ci\u003emodern\u003c\/i\u003e 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. This book seeks to do just that: to tell the story of how the consumption of sugar - the addition of sugar to food and drink - became a fundamental and increasingly troublesome feature of modern life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalvin''s book is the heir to Sidney Mintz''s \u003ci\u003eSweetness and Power\u003c\/i\u003e, a brilliant sociological account, but now thirty years old. In addition, the problem of sugar, and the consequent intellectual and political debate about the role of sugar, has been totally transformed in the years since that book''s publication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57383487078782,"sku":"NW9781472138125","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781472138125.jpg?v=1778253565","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/how-sugar-corrupted-the-world","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}