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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Sidney W. Mintz general fiction Nobel Peace Prize Laureates HisA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave"