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The 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
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Sugar. The World Corrupted, from Slavery to Obesity, James Walvin
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- Année de publication
- 2017
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- Titre
- Sugar. The World Corrupted, from Slavery to Obesity
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- James Walvin
- Éditeur
- Robinson
- Publié
- 2017
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1472138090
- ISBN13
- 9781472138095
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Thème historique, Histoire, Santé & Médecine, Médecine, Sciences politiques & Politique, Politique, Science, Santé, Nourriture, Cadeaux pour papy
- Première publication
- 2017
- Titre original
- Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
- Évaluation
- 4,2 sur 5
- Description
- The 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