Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History BOTY_2025 Players take turns scooping up

Players take turns scooping up the special stones and counting them out one at a time into the pockets on the board

With all the mounting pressure and expectations—of their family

is anchored only by his desires to be a writer and to reunite with Alva

”—Danielle Krysa

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History BOTY_2025 Players take turns scooping upA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave"