> Has anyone read Sidney W. Mintz, _Sweetness and Power: The Place of
> Sugar in Modern History_ (1985)? If there are comparable historical
> materialist efforts that analyze other consumption goods of
> importance, I'd be interested in reading them.
what makes "consumption goods" important rather than unimportant? why does sugar count (no, i know that one); why do other "goods" not count? i would think, yoshie, that people's lives counted... were "of importance"... and that includes tons of things that probably don't count as "goods" in macroeconomic relations
Catherine
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