Professor James Walvin

How Sugar Corrupted the World

From Slavery to Obesity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group / Robinson
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 557387
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 123mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9781472138125
• ISBN-10: 1472138120
• Artikelnr.: 51401628

Autorenporträt

JAMES WALVIN is the author of many books on slavery and modern social history. His book, Crossings, was published by Reaktion Books in 2013. His first book, with Michael Craton, was a detailed study of a sugar plantation: A Jamaican Plantation, Worthy Park, 1670-1970 (Toronto, 1970). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006, and in 2008 was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship.

Rezensionen

A brilliant and thought-provoking history of sugar and its ironies Bee Wilson Wall Street Journal