Meghan's review
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
by Sidney W. Mintz
Meghan's review
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz
Meghan's review
rating:
recommended for: world history fans
This book is interesting because it shows how powerful the introduction of a product (in this case sugar) can be to society. Mintz shows how the sugar plantation system is pre-capitalist. He talks about how the British hankering for sugar caused the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans. It's interesting and relevant to the capitalism of today. Mintz was an anthropologist so it's more anthropological at times than historical.
