Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

Aronson, Marc; Budhos, Marina

ISBN 10: 0618574921 / ISBN 13: 9780618574926

Published by Clarion Books, 2010

About this Item

First edition 2009, third printing. Published by Clarion Books. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, corners very slightly bumped, no edgewear, no names, no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ new, bright, no tears, no chips, no edgewear, price not clipped. Square 4to, 176 pages, illustrated throughout with historic images. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618574921
• ISBN 13: 9780618574926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

When 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.

About the Authors

Marc Aronson is the award-winning author of a wide variety of nonfiction works for younger readers, including Sugar Changed the World and Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, which received the first Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award. He edits and publishes young adult fiction in a special arrangement with Candlewick and lives with his wife and two sons in Maplewood, New Jersey. Visit him at marcaronson.com.

Marina Budhos is an assistant professor of English at William Paterson University. She is the author of Ask Me No Questions, winner of the inaugural James Cook Teen Book Award. She and her husband live with their two sons in Maplewood, New Jersey.