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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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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.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Stein, S. J., & Mintz, S. W.
- Venue
- The American Historical Review
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1986-04
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 362
- ISSN
- 0002-8762 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2127784790
- Cited by
- 2,369
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 70.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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