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Password: pg9 1 Title: Sweetness and Power
Author: [America] Westminster
Translator: Zhu Jiangang
Douban score: 8.2
Publishing House: Commercial Press
Publication year: 20 10-5
Page count: 237
Content introduction:
The book Sweetness and Power is a good example. As an anthropological classic, Westminster tells the wonderful and extraordinary history behind the common thing of sugar. Westminster tells the fate of sugar in a particularly profound and interesting way, focusing on sugarcane plantations in early industrialized England and American Caribbean colonies. In the book, we saw the process of sugar changing from luxury goods to industrialized goods. In this process, it is closely related to the primitive accumulation of early capitalism, slave production and even the political and economic relations between countries. At the same time, we also see how sugar is embedded in the texture of daily life step by step through a top-down complex cultural process. How do anthropologists learn from complicated historical materials? How to focus on the ordinary and then reveal the extraordinary behind it?
About the author:
This book mainly tells about the sugarcane plantations in early industrialized England and the Caribbean colonies in the United States, and describes the transformation process of sugar from luxury goods to industrialized goods. The author closely links this process with the primitive accumulation of early capitalism, slave production and even the political and economic relations between countries, and it is particularly profound and interesting to dig out the wonderful and extraordinary history behind the common thing of sugar.