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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
166 pp.
| Clarion |
November, 2010 |
TradeISBN 978-0-618-57492-6$20.00
(1)
YA
Aronson and Budhos explore the sugar industry's origins, tracing, among other elements, the crop’s growth in popularity and the transatlantic slave trade, then providing broader twentieth-century context. This is fine historical writing: an epic story on a broad canvas that never loses sight of individual moments of human drama; the volume also boasts a thoughtful marriage of words, pictures, and design. Timeline. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2011