Traces the history of sugar production and consumption, examines its relationship with slavery, class ambitions, and industrialization, and describes sugar's impact on modern diet and eating habits.
Sidney W. Mintz Books
History, evolution, and the concept of culture : selected papers by Alexander Lesser
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
This representative selection of Lesser's work is designed to make the range of his writings accessible to a broad audience. His work is of particular interest to present-day readers for its advocacy of an historical-evolutionary perspective in anthropology.