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Sugar’s sweet allure hides a history of science, power, and corruption.
Unrefined
how capitalism reinvented sugar
$100.90
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2025
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Summary
The Bitter Truth: How Capitalism Refined Sugar and Obscured Its Dark History
A surprising look at how modern capitalism changed sugar from a natural food to a scientific commodity.
Sugar is everywhere in the western diet, blamed for epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and other modern maladies. Our addiction to sweetness has a long and unsavory history. Over the past five hundred years, sugar has shaped empires, made fortunes for a few, and brought misery for mi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226837376 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226837378 |
| Series: | Synthesis |
| Author: | David Singerman |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 594g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 28mm |
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David Singerman
David Singerman is assistant professor of history and American studies at the University of Virginia.
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