Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

by Marc Aronson

Book Overview

When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran 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 was the substance that drove the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618574921
• ISBN13: 9780618574926
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Lovely Book

If I had noted that this book was for grades 7 and higher I probably wouldn't have ordered it. That said, it is somewhat oversized like a small coffee table book. It has very high quality paper and many photos and graphics. Although all in black and white the clarity is wonderful and because of the oversizing of the hard cover edition I received they are all large enough to be readable. My knowledge of world history is not so expansive that I won't learn a lot from this book. ISBN 978 0 618 57492 6 Happy mistake!