具体描述
A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets. In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times.
作者简介
Sidney W. Mintz is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, whose faculty he joined after teaching for two decades at Yale. He is the author of Worker in the Cane, Caribbean Transformations, and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past, co-author of The People of Puerto Rico, and editor of Slavery, Colonialism and Racism.
目录信息
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Food, Sociality, and Sugar
2. Production
3. Consumption
4. Power
5. Eating and Being
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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读后感
（一） 去年夏天，苗师傅在《三联生活周刊》专栏上写了一篇《饥饿间奏曲》，围绕食物与社会化这个主题，推荐了三本书，其中一本就是《甜与权力》。 苗师傅在介绍这本书时，提到了一个现象，几百年前，糖在英国还是奢侈品，只有国王和贵族才能享用，而到了20世纪，糖已经成为...
评分如果问一个人你喜欢甜的食物吗？喜欢吃糖吗？你有没有被我这个怪蜀黍的怪问题雷到囧？但我们，或者大多数人为什么喜欢吃糖，难道仅仅因为它是甜的吗？这个问题好矫情。 Chocolate lady Sidney. W. Mintz就食糖的现代史写下了鸿篇巨著—《Sweetness and Power》（甜蜜与权...
评分人类学家萨林斯有一句名言：如果西方人原来的主食是狗肉的话，那么他们的粮食生产及耕牛生产将会与现在不同，其国际贸易也将会改变。这个说法予人许多启迪。说实话，如果人类不是那么喜欢甜味的话，近代的资本主义生产方式和世界体系恐怕也会大不一样。 在许多语言中，“酸甜...
评分 评分当我说这本书是物质文化史的典范时，我的意思是如果你对物质文化史感兴趣的话，尤其是对日常生活中的物质文化（也就是人类学意义上的文化）感兴趣的话，这本书可以说是经典之作了。但是，如果你觉得物质文化史完全是无聊的鸡毛蒜皮，吃什么用什么擦屁股，完全是无关紧要的东西...
用户评价
Anthro211读过，当时比较开眼界，自此开始读食物史和环境史的书…
评分边看边狂吃甜食，结果看着看着就觉得恶心了。。。
评分An examplar writing of feasible analytical history.
评分An examplar writing of feasible analytical history.
评分比起全球史，这本书主要解决的问题还是the rise of capitalism吧，依然是在逻辑上多有不顺的消费社会的形成问题/人类学方法很有意思，例如各种讲究用途、实践之类/后面英文版实在读不下去就翻中文版了????
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