{"product_id":"sugar-the-world-corrupted-from-slavery-to-obesity","title":"Sugar: The World Corrupted, From Slavery To Obesity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of sugar, and of mankind's desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an historical story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of mankind's love of sweetness - the need to consume honey, cane sugar, beet sugar and chemical sweeteners - has important historical origins. To take a simple example, two centuries ago, cane sugar was vital to the burgeoning European domestic and colonial economies. For all its recent origins, today's obesity epidemic - if that is what it is - did not emerge overnight, but instead evolved from a complexity of historical forces which stretch back centuries. We can only fully understand this modern problem, by coming to terms with its genesis and history: and we need to consider the historical relationship between society and sweetness over a long historical span. This book seeks to do just that: to tell the story of how the consumption of sugar - the addition of sugar to food and drink - became a fundamental and increasingly troublesome feature of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWalvin's book is the heir to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power, a brilliant sociological account, but now thirty years old.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44787500613811,"sku":"9781472138101","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477375669781472138101.jpg?v=1762820488","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/sugar-the-world-corrupted-from-slavery-to-obesity","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}