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‎Sugar Changed the World. A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science.‎

‎ Clarion Books, 2010, gr. in-8° carré, 166 pp, 75 gravures et photos, 5 cartes, chronologie, notes et sources, biblio, index, reliure toile éditeur, jaquette illustrée, bon état. Texte en anglais‎

‎Des cérémonies religieuses en Inde à l'Europe du Moyen Age, puis à Christophe Colomb, qui importa la culture de la canne aux Amériques. Le sucre conduisit ensuite au commerce d’esclaves et causa la perte d’innombrables vies, mais il planta aussi les graines de la révolution qui conduisit les colonies américaines, Haïti et la France, à la liberté. A l'aide de chansons, de cartes et de plus de 80 illustrations d’époque, une vison originale des grands courants de l’histoire du monde à travers l'histoire du sucre. — Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos were inspired to write this book when they discovered that they both had sugar in their family history, they traced 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. ‎