Sugar: The Grass that Changed the World
- ISBN-10
- 1448132843
- ISBN-13
- 9781448132843
- Series
- Sugar
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-05-31
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Sanjida O'Connell
Description
Our lust for sugar has changed the shape of the world economically culturally and scoially. Sanjida O' Connell reveals, in accessible and scintillating prose, the extraordinary and illuminating story of sugar's journey from a grass to world domination.
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