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. The story
of mankind's love of sweetness - the need to consume honey, cane
sugar, beet sugar and chemical sweeteners - has important
historical origins. To take a simple example, two centuries ago,
cane sugar was vital to the burgeoning European domestic and
colonial economies. For all its recent origins, today's obesity
epidemic - if that is what it is - did not emerge overnight, but
instead evolved from a complexity of historical forces which
stretch back centuries. We can only fully understand this modern
problem, by coming to terms with its genesis and history: and we
need to consider the historical relationship between society and
sweetness over a long historical span. This book seeks to do just
that: to tell the story of how the consumption of sugar - the
addition of sugar to food and drink - became a fundamental and
increasingly troublesome feature of modern life. Walvin's book is
the heir to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power, a brilliant
sociological account, but now thirty years old. In addition, the
problem of sugar, and the consequent intellectual and political
debate about the role of sugar, has been totally transformed in the
years since that book's publication.
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