1986peer-reviewed2,381 citations
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Stanley J. Stein, Sidney W. Mintz
The American Historical Review
Abstract
Shows how the intelligent analysis of the history of a single commodity can be used to pry open the history of an entire world of social relationships and human behavior.The New York Review of Books.
Concepts
SweetnessCommoditySugarWorld historyPower (physics)History