ANTH 2110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, Nonini, Walt Whitman Rostow
17 Apr 2016
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Social: the rise of slavery in caribbean to produce sugar. Poliical: as sugar became important control of sugar meant power. Sugar was not a english preference before the 18th century, was previously used as medicine, condiment and decoraive material. But as the west took over barbados and other sugar producing islands such as jamaica it became more afordable and accessible. Ulimately became the necessary commodity in everyone"s diet. Sugar is a simulant and is somewhat addicive, the fusion of it with beverages and other foods ex. Tea signiicantly improves the taste thus reasoning for its popularity: how did sugar plantaions restructure social, cultural, and economic paterns in the. He believes that humanity creates social structures and ill events with meaning but everything has an historical origin that is the cause of something before. Structural adjustments are loans lent by world bank or imf to developing countries to help them become more market oriented.
