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Gr 8 Up—This meticulously researched, brutally honest, compelling book offers readers a different way to look at many events over the past 200 years or so. The title says it all. From the slave trade through abolition; from revolutions (American, French, and Haitian) to the Louisiana Purchase; from the decline of honey to the rise of saccharine, these events and many more are directly traced ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Exploring world history through the lens of a single food staple, Aronson and Budhos begin by recounting their own family connections to the sugar industry before taking us back to its origins, at least back to when Alexander the Great "discovered" it in India. They trace how sugar grew in popularity through time and across empires; how the Age of Exploration that began with Columbus also ushered in the transatla...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Aronson and Budhos explore the sugar industry's origins, tracing, among other elements, the crop’s growth in popularity and the transatlantic ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More