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Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

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ISBN-10: 0618574921

ISBN-13: 9780618574926

Edition: 2010

Authors: Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/15/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 8.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Marina Budhosis the author of such books asAsk Me No Questions,Tell Us We're Home, andnbsp;Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers.She has received an EMMA (Exceptional Merit Media Award) and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for women writers. Ms. Budhos has been a Fulbright Scholar in India, has given talks throughout the country and abroad, and has taught at several universities and colleges. She is currently an assistant professor of English at William Paterson University. She lives with her husband and fellow Atheneum author, Marc Aronson, and their two sons in Maplewood, New Jersey.nbsp;You can visit her online at marinabudhos.com.