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  • Sweetness and Power

    The Place of Sugar in Modern History

    by Sidney W. Mintz ...
    A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern dietsIn 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 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Three Ancient Colonies

    Caribbean Themes and Variations

    by Sidney W. Mintz ...
    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    As a young anthropologist, Sidney Mintz undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Fifty years later, the eminent scholar of the Caribbean returns to those experiences to meditate on the societies and on the island people who befriended him. These reflections illuminate continuities and differences between these cultures, but even more they exemplify the power of people to reveal ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Sweetness and Power

    The Place of Sugar in Modern History

    by Sidney W. Mintz ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. 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 sugar's origins are as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets

    by Darra Goldstein ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    A sweet tooth is a powerful thing. Babies everywhere seem to smile when tasting sweetness for the first time, a trait inherited, perhaps, from our ancestors who foraged for sweet foods that were generally safer to eat than their bitter counterparts. But the "science of sweet" is only the beginning of a fascinating story, because it is not basic human need or simple biological impulse that prompts ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Fast Food/Slow Food

    The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

    by Cathy Banwell, Theodore C. Bestor, Michael L. Burton, Jane Dixon, James A. Egan, Sarah Hinde, Valerie Imbruce, Dolores Koenig, Sarah Lyon, Ty Matejowsky, Heather McIntyre, Sidney Mintz, Karen L. Nero, Heather Paxson, Jeffery Pilcher, Lois Stanford, Penny Van Esterik, Gavin Whitelaw ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Birth of African-American Culture

    An Anthropological Perspective

    by Sidney Wilfred Mintz ...
    This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.From the Trade Paperback edition. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Oral History

    An Interdisciplinary Anthology

    by Allan Nevins, Louis Starr, Ronald J. Grele, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Tuchman, William Cutler III, William Moss, Jan Vansina, Ruth Finnegan, David Lance, Saul Benison, Peter Friedlander, Amelia Fry, Lynwood Montell, Larry Danielson, Gary Okihiro, Sherna Gluck, Linda Shopes, Tamara Hareven, Alex Haley, Richard Dorson, Charles Joyner, Sidney Mintz, David Dunaway, Eugenia Meyer, Paul Thompson, Karen Hartewig, Daniel Voldman, Alessandro Portelli, Dora Schwarztein ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology is a collection of classic articles by some of the best known proponents of oral history, demonstrating the basics of oral history, while also acting as a guidebook for how to use it in research. Added to this new edition is insight into how oral history is practiced on an international scale, making this book an indispensable resource for scholars of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets

    by Darra Goldstein ...
    Series series Oxford Companions
    A sweet tooth is a powerful thing. Babies everywhere seem to smile when tasting sweetness for the first time, a trait inherited, perhaps, from our ancestors who foraged for sweet foods that were generally safer to eat than their bitter counterparts. But the "science of sweet" is only the beginning of a fascinating story, because it is not basic human need or simple biological impulse that prompts ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Spanish Olive Jar

    An Introductory Study

    by John M. Goggin ...
    FROM the earliest days of the Colonial period until Republican times, the Spanish New World was supplied with much of its necessities by the mother country. This resulted in the development of a complex export industry centered around the annual fleet sent from either Seville or Cadiz. Furthermore, the monopoly retained by Spain from time to time of certain products, such as olive oil and wine, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caribbean Transformations

    Edited by Sidney W. Mintz ...
    Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to improvise, invent and literally create forms of human association through which their pasts and the symbolic interpretation of their present could be structured.Caribbean Transformations is divided into ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Markets in Oaxaca

    by Scott Cook, Martin Diskin ...
    Markets in Oaxaca is a study of the regional peasant marketing system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. It relates the marketing system to other aspects of the regional economy, to neighboring regions, and to the Mexican national economy. Combining ethnographic, theoretical, and regional analyses, it suggests new directions in the fields of peasant and development studies.Contributors to the volume ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Plantation

    by Edgar Tristram Thompson ...
    Series series Southern Classics
    The first complete publication of an overlooked gem in American intellectual historyA rare classic in American social science, Edgar Thompson's 1932 University of Chicago dissertation, "The Plantation," broke new analytic ground in the study of the southern plantation system. Thompson refuted long-espoused climatic theories of the origins of plantation societies and offered instead a richly ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus