Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
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When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe's Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, here is the story of how one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in new ways. Time line, source notes, bibliography, index.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0618574921
ISBN13:9780618574926
Release Date:November 2010
Publisher:Clarion Books
Length:176 Pages
Weight:1.68 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 8.7" x 9.6"
Age Range:12 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 7 and higher
Customer Reviews
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Lovely Book
Published by User , 1 year ago
If I had noted that this book was for grades 7 and higher I probably wouldn't have ordered it. That said, it is somewhat oversized like a small coffee table book. It has very high quality paper and many photos and graphics. Although all in black and white the clarity is wonderful and because of the oversizing of the hard cover edition I received they are all large enough to be readable. My knowledge of world history is not so expansive that I won't learn a lot from this book. ISBN 978 0 618 57492 6 Happy mistake!
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