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Plantations of Antigua: The Sweet Success of Sugar (Volume 1): A Biography of the Historic Plantations Which Made Antigua a Major Source of the World'

Plantations of Antigua: The Sweet Success of Sugar (Volume 1): A Biography of the Historic Plantations Which Made Antigua a Major Source of the World'

Meeker Mbe, Agnes C.
Dery, Donald A.

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General EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1524687316
ISBN13: 9781524687311
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Oct 20 2017
Pages: 342
Weight: 2.35
Height: 0.93 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Sugar. It sits there, dormant, nestled in a small bowl or serving-size packet, waiting to be spooned into a cup of coffee or tea; spread across some cereal; or dropped into a recipe for cake, pie, or other scrumptious treat in the making. It is so readily available, so easy to use, so irresistibly tasty. But few people stop to realize the enormous economic, social, political, even military, upheaval this simple-looking, widely popular food enhancer has caused in many parts of the world. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, even into the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth, sugar cane was a preeminent crop upon which economies succeeded or failed, societies grew, and money flowed like . . . well, sugar! A region particularly impacted by sugar was the volcanic islands of the Caribbean-virgin soil enriched by crushed coral and limestone, and blessed by unlimited sunshine. The result was soil so rich for planting that the necklace of island colonies and small nation-states became a massive source of the world's supply of sugar. Antigua's 108 square miles, an island of undulating hills and indented coastline, fell into this category.

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