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Sugar Changed the World - by Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos
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Highlights
- When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives.
- L.A. Times Book Prize (Young Adult Literature) 2010 3rd Winner, Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Ten to Fourteen) 2011 3rd Winner
- 12 Years
- 9.6" x 8.7" Hardcover
- 176 Pages
- Young Adult Nonfiction, History
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About the Book
An award-winning husband-and-wife team traces the story of sugar, a substance whose sweetness we all crave, from the first discovery of cane to its role throughout world history.
Book Synopsis
When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe's Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, here is the story of how one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in new ways. Time line, source notes, bibliography, index.
Review Quotes
"This is fine historical writing: an epic story on a broad canvas that never loses sight of individual moments of human drama; a historical methodology infused with political, intellectual, cultural, and social strands; a complex sequence of cause and effect; an illuminating synthesis of primary and secondary sources; and a thoughtful marriage of words, picture, and design."
-- Horn Book (starred review)
"An impassioned, thought-provoking account that forces us to look anew at the things we take for granted." -- Shelf Awareness
"This book, at once serious and engaging, traces the complex history of sugar over vast expanses of time and space, exploring ways in which this one commodity influenced the formation of empires, the enslavement and migrations of peoples, the development of ideas about liberty, and so much more." -- Deborah Warner, Curator, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
About the Author
Marc Aronson has won many awards and prizes for his books, including the first Sibert Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for Eldorado. Marina Budhos is an assistant professor of English at William Paterson University. She is the author of Ask Me No Questions, winner of the inaugural James Cook Teen Book Award. She and her husband live with their two sons in Maplewood, New Jersey.
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