Sugar : a bittersweet history / Elizabeth Abbott.

London ; New York : Duckworth Overlook, 2009, ©2008.

x, 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"First published in 2008 by Penguin Group (Canada)"--t.p. verso.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: The oriental delight conquers the world -- The reign of sugar begins -- The proletarianization of sugar -- Part 2: Black sugar -- The Africanization of the cane fields -- The world the whites made -- Sugar stirs the universe -- Part 3: Abolition through resistance and parliament -- Racism, resistance, rebellion and revolution -- Blood in the sugar : abolishing the slave trade -- Slaying monsters : slavery and apprenticeship -- Cuba and Louisiana : sugar for North America -- Part 4: The sweetening world -- The sugar diasporas -- Meet and eat me in St. Louis! -- Sugar's legacies and prospects -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Credits.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-440) and index.