Mintz Sidney: Slast i moć

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Author: Mintz Sidney
Publisher: Mediterran Publishing
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 45620

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Slast i moć

Mintz Sidney

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Sidney Mintz: Sweetness and Power

The beginnings of the study of sugar date back to the distant past, even to the European past. However, much remains unexplained, even enigmatic. How and why sugar gained such a predominant importance among the European peoples, who before that hardly knew about it, is still not entirely clear. At a time when European might, military force and economic initiative were transforming the world, sucrose obtained from sugar cane became Europe's favorite source of satisfying the desire for sweets, which seems to be a widespread and perhaps even universal human desire. In the 15th century, this source connected Europe and many colonial areas, and in the following centuries its importance was only emphasized, which was not shaken even by changes in politics. And vice versa, what was produced in the metropolis was consumed in the colonies. The desire for sweet substances steadily spread and increased; it satisfied itself with many different products, and the importance of sugarcane therefore varied from time to time. Since sugar seems to satisfy a specific desire (it also seems to reawaken it at the same time), we need to understand how this demand works: how and why it increases and under what conditions. We cannot simply assume that everyone has an infinite desire for sweets, any more than we can assume the desire for comfort, wealth, or power. As I intend to consider these issues within a specific historical context, I will look at the history of sugar consumption in Great Britain, particularly between 1650, when sugar became a fairly common food item, and 1900, when it was firmly entrenched in the diet of every working-class family. But first I will have to consider the production of that sugar that ended up on English tables, in tea, in jam, biscuits, cakes and sweets...

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