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. - -- Yoshie
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I’ve read it. A very fine book. Mintz covers a lot of ground, showing how sugar was the original processed food, was probably the first food produced industrially, with an organization of production in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries, that was much more rationalized than what prevailed in Europe at the time. He also shows how sugar went on to form a basic component of the impoverished European working classes in the later 19th and 20th centuries. And much more. A book I strongly recommend.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema
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