POLS 196 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sugarcane, Luxury Goods, Industrial Revolution
17 Feb 2020
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Food was not considered important until the detailed work on sugar outlined its importance for economic and political development in the mid 1900s. Sugar was a massive demographic force, fueling the slave trade and migration. History of sugar tells us about: power, the borrowing of ideas across cultures, social status, economic influence. Any will consumption of sugar grew exponentially from a 17 to the 1900s. Sugar domesticated around 8000 bce in new guinea and spread to the philippines around. 6000: mentioned in 400 bce in indian writings with early recipes. Sugar production is an extremely labor-intensive operation and the labor is required at specific times of the year. The first widespread use was in islamic countries in the 9th century, then it spread to the. Sugar cane was planted in atlantic islands and the portuguese eventually rated west africa for slaves to be used in sugar production.
