Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

19862,381 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Sidney W. Mintz · National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism

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.

Topics & Keywords

Culinary Culture and Tourism

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Zero hunger

Publication Details

Published in: The American Historical Review

Volume 91, Issue 2, pp. 362-362

DOI: 10.2307/1858145

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 22.88