{"product_id":"9780618574926","title":"Sugar Changed The World : A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSugar Changed The World\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe’s Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, here is the story of how one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in new ways. Time line, source notes, bibliography, index.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"This is fine historical writing: an epic story on a broad canvas that never loses sight of individual moments of human drama; a historical methodology infused with political, intellectual, cultural, and social strands; a complex sequence of cause and effect; an illuminating synthesis of primary and secondary sources; and a thoughtful marriage of words, picture, and design.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHorn Book\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Covering 10,000 years of history and ranging the world, the story is made personal by the authors' own family stories, their passion for the subject and their conviction that young people are up to the challenge of complex, well-written narrative history.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As the title suggests, this stirring, highly detailed history of the sugar trade reaches across time and around the globe . . . The book's scope is ambitious, but the clear, informal prose, along with maps and archival illustrations, makes the horrific connections with dramatic immediacy.\"—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"This is a poignant, ultimately hopeful essay that clearly chronicles the human pursuit of sugar to satisfy our collective sweet tooth.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An impassioned, thought-provoking account that forces us to look anew at the things we take for granted.\"—Jennifer Brown,\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eShelf Awareness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"This book, at once serious and engaging, traces the complex history of sugar over vast expanses of time and space, exploring ways in which this one commodity influenced the formation of empires, the enslavement and migrations of peoples, the development of ideas about liberty, and so much more.\"—Deborah Warner, Curator, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Honor Book, Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS\/CBC), School Library Journal Best Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780618574926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Clarion Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":41165791953102,"sku":"9780618574926","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780618574926_821af4f2-f7a1-4963-bc56-b6f2f24e0ba7.jpg?v=1652145707","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780618574926","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}