How Sugar Corrupted the World: From Slavery to Obesity

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An ‘entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity’s very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises fundamental questions about our world.’
Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University and the author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History, in the New York Times

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

‘Shocking and revelatory . . . no other product has so changed the world, and no other book reveals the scale of its impact.’ David Olusoga

‘This study could not be more timely.’ Laura Sandy, Lecturer in the History of Slavery, University of Liverpool

The story of sugar, and of mankind’s desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an historical story.

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