The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years

Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a mania in the West, transforming diets and ecosystems, destroying and creating cultures, and shaping the history of bondage and freedom. A major source of calories only since 1900, sugar has suddenly revolutionized our world.

• | Author: Ulbe Bosma
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: May 06, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674299085
• | ISBN-10: 0674299086