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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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1986
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Historical GeographySocial TheoryHistorical SociologyEntire WorldEconomic HistorySocial SciencesFoodwaysSingle CommodityCultural HistoryHistorical EvidenceIntellectual HistoryIntelligent AnalysisHistorical AnalysisLiterary HistoryHistorical MethodologyBusinessModern HistorySocial AnthropologyModernity
Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior.The New York Review of Books.