{"product_id":"sugar-changed-the-world-a-story-of-magic-spice-slavery-freedom-and-science-paperback","title":"Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarc Aronson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMarina Budhos\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis globe-spanning history of sugar is \"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ean epic story on a broad canvas that never loses sight of individual moments of human drama; a historical methodology infused with political, intellectual, cultural, and social strands; a complex sequence of cause and effect; an illuminating synthesis of primary and secondary sources; and a thoughtful marriage of words, picture, and design.\" (\u003cem\u003eHorn Book\u003c\/em\u003e starred review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the story of how one product allows us to see the grand currents of world history in new ways. Using songs, oral histories, maps, and over 80 archival illustrations, Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos put a human face on this vast pageant. Time line, source notes, bibliography, and index included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history of sugar runs 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCane, not cotton or tobacco, drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity of sugar gave abolitionists in England the one tool that could finally end the slave trade. Sugar moved, murdered, and freed millions; sugar changed the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarc Aronson has won many awards and prizes for his books, including the first Sibert Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for \u003ci\u003eSir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for Eldorado. \u003c\/i\u003eMarina Budhos is an assistant professor of English\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eat William Paterson University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAsk Me No Questions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the inaugural James Cook Teen Book Award. She and her husband live with their two sons in Maplewood, New Jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.4 x 8.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756604555552,"sku":"9780544582477","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/39287373502227f7c1ccd413c7268584.webp?v=1780082024","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sugar-changed-the-world-a-story-of-magic-spice-slavery-freedom-and-science-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}