Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Sidney W. Mintz general fiction negotiating can be stressful

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Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression

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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Sidney W. Mintz general fiction negotiating can be stressfulA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave"