{"product_id":"the-world-of-sugar-how-the-sweet-stuff-transformed-our-politics-health-and-environment-over-2000-years-9780674299085","title":"The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An extraordinary achievement.\" --David Edgerton, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry have shaped the world in which we live.\" --Gary Taubes, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Case Against Sugar \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most of history, humans did without refined sugar. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How did sugar find its way into almost all the food we eat, fostering illness and ecological crisis along the way? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World of Sugar\u003c\/i\u003e begins with the earliest evidence of sugar production, tracing its origins in India around the sixth century BC and showing how its introduction to Europe in the Middle Ages spawned a brutal quest for supply. European cravings were satisfied by enslaved labor; two-thirds of the 12.5 million Africans taken across the Atlantic were destined for sugar plantations. By the twentieth century, sugar was a major source of calories in diets across Europe and North America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSugar transformed life on every continent, creating and destroying whole cultures through industrialization, labor migration, and changes in diet. Sugar made fortunes, corrupted governments, and shaped the policies of technocrats. And it provoked freedom cries that rang with world-changing consequences. In Ulbe Bosma's definitive telling, to understand sugar's past is to glimpse the origins of our own world of corn syrup and ethanol and begin to see the threat that a not-so-simple commodity poses to our bodies, our environment, and our communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ulbe Bosma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.9lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674299085","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43945365307529,"sku":"9780674299085","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_6cb90ead-7bc2-4603-a6d6-69a26481422b.jpg?v=1745911091","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-world-of-sugar-how-the-sweet-stuff-transformed-our-politics-health-and-environment-over-2000-years-9780674299085","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}