JAMES WALVIN is the author of many books on slavery and modern social history. His book, Crossings, was published by Reaktion Books in 2013. His first book, with Michael Craton, was a detailed study of a sugar plantation: A Jamaican Plantation, Worthy Park, 1670-1970 (Toronto, 1970). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006, and in 2008 was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship.
A brilliant and thought-provoking history of sugar and its
ironies
*Wall Street Journal*
As an historian of slavery, Walvin is well-versed in the triangular
trade and explains the role of sugar cane in bringing Africans to
the Caribbean. His survey of sugar in our lives is very
readable.
*Spectator*
A convincing, deep history of this (in)famous product . . . This is
not simply the tale of those who toiled to produce sugar . . .
Something more than just a scholarly text, this study could not be
more timely
*History Today*
This study could not be more timely.
*Laura Sandy, Lecturer in the History of Slavery, University of
Liverpool*
A refreshingly historical look at a substance we often take for
granted
*History Revealed*
Former history professor James Walvin's latest book aims to
untangle the social, political, and economic history of sugar, a
commodity that began as the preserve of the elite, but which now
saturates cultures the world over'
*NZME*
An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history
of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways
that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign
and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises
fundamental questions about our world.'
*New York Times*
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