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Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
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Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity Hardcover - 2018

by James Walvin

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Pegasus Books, April 2018. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. 'Historian James Walvin looks at the history of our collective sweet tooth, beginning with the sugar grown by enslaved people who had been uprooted and shipped vast distances to undertake the grueling labor on plantations. The combination of sugar and slavery would transform the tastes of the Western world'--]cProvided by publisher. Remainder mark.
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  • Title Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity
  • Author James Walvin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pegasus Books
  • Date April 2018
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 325276
  • ISBN 9781681776774 / 1681776774
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.4 in (23.62 x 14.99 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sugar - History, Sugar - Health aspects
  • Dewey Decimal Code 572.565

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James Walvin is the author of several books on slavery and modern social history, including Crossings and A Jamaican Plantation. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2008 was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship. He lives in England.