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Title: Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz ISBN: 0-14-009233-1 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: February, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent anthrological perspective on history
Comment: I read this book for an economic anthropology class. I thought it gave an excellent anthropological perspective on how sugar changed history. Mintz makes some striking points on the influence of slavery on the development of capitalism, as well as drawing a parallel between the sugar plantations in the Carribean and the capitalist, industrial factories that developed shortly after. The book is packed with historical information, overall a really informative read.
Rating: 4
Summary: How meaning morphs depending on class
Comment: Mintz's book is a bit hard to understand because he approaches the history of sugar from an intensely anthropological perspective. Basically, he studies the meaning associated with sugar (especially in England) during its centuries-long journey across time and economic class. Sugar began as an upper-class commodity. To have sugar displayed one's wealth and status. It was even endowed with magical and medicinal properties. Through colonialism, however, sugar was supplied to England cheaply and it became an daily part of the lower class English diet. It lost its high-status connotations and became a common day product. Mintz also studies the meanings sugar had in literature and speech, and even its effects today. This book is a worthwhile endeavor, and for anthropology, actually almost a fun read.
Rating: 3
Summary: interesting
Comment: Mintz's book is a bit hard to understand because he approaches the history of sugar from an intensely anthropological perspective. Basically, he studies the meaning associated with sugar (especially in England) during its centuries-long journey across time and economic class. Sugar began as an upper-class commodity. To have sugar displayed one's wealth and status. It was even endowed with magical and medicinal properties. Through colonialism, however, sugar was supplied to England cheaply and it became an daily part of the lower class English diet. It lost its high-status connotations and became a common day product. Mintz also studies the meanings sugar had in literature and speech, and even its effects today. This book is a worthwhile endeavor, and for anthropology, actually almost a fun read.
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Title: Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar by Peter Macinnis ISBN: 1865086576 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom : Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past by Sidney Mintz ISBN: 0807046299 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 14 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Tastes of Paradise : A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants by Wolfgang Schivelbusch ISBN: 067974438X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Food and Culture: A Reader by Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik, Penny Van Esterik ISBN: 0415917107 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas by Judity A. Carney, Judith Ann Carney ISBN: 0674008340 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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