Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An '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, HOW SUGAR CORRUPTED THE WORLD raises fundamental questions about our world.' - Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University and the author of EMPIRE OF COTTON: A GLOBAL HISTORY'A brilliant and thought-provoking history of sugar and its ironies'Bee Wilson, Wall Street Journal'Shocking and revelatory . . . no other product has so changed the world, and no other book reveals the scale of its impact.' David Olusoga'This study could not be more timely.' Laura Sandy, Lecturer in the History of Slavery, University of LiverpoolThe story of sugar, and of mankind's desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an historical story.The story of mankind's love of sweetness - the need to consume honey, cane sugar, beet sugar and chemical sweeteners - has important historical 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 modern 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.Walvin's book is the heir to Sidney Mintz's SWEETNESS AND POWER, 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. How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781472138125

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New

US$ 17.35

Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE

Within U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Stock Image

How Sugar Corrupted the World

James Walvin

Published by Little, Brown 2019-02-07, London (2019)

ISBN 10: 1472138120 ISBN 13: 9781472138125

New paperback Quantity: 10

Seller:

Blackwell's
(London, United Kingdom)

Rating

Seller Rating:

Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9781472138125

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New

US$ 12.57

Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 5.73

From United Kingdom to U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Stock Image

How Sugar Corrupted the World: From Slavery to Obesity

James Walvin

Published by Constable & Robinson Ltd. (2019)

ISBN 10: 1472138120 ISBN 13: 9781472138125

New Softcover Quantity: 1

Seller:

Majestic Books
(Hounslow, United Kingdom)

Rating

Seller Rating:

Book Description Condition: New. pp. 352. Seller Inventory # 370329378

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New

US$ 13.05

Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 8.28

From United Kingdom to U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Stock Image

Sugar: The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity

James Walvin

Published by Little, Brown Book Group (2019)

ISBN 10: 1472138120 ISBN 13: 9781472138125

New Paperback / softback Quantity: 5

Seller:

THE SAINT BOOKSTORE
(Southport, United Kingdom)

Rating

Seller Rating:

Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic?. Seller Inventory # B9781472138125

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New

US$ 12.57

Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 11.40

From United Kingdom to U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Stock Image

How Sugar Corrupted the World: From Slavery to Obesity

Walvin, Professor James

Published by Robinson (2019)

ISBN 10: 1472138120 ISBN 13: 9781472138125

New Paperback Quantity: 2

Seller:

Monster Bookshop
(Fleckney, United Kingdom)

Rating

Seller Rating:

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. BRAND NEW ** SUPER FAST SHIPPING FROM UK WAREHOUSE ** 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE. Seller Inventory # 9781472138125-GDR

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New

US$ 12.70

Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 11.45

From United Kingdom to U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Stock Image