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A long and productive life blessed with good health ended suddenly from injuries sustained in a fall. Later expanding his ethnographic research to haiti and jamaica, he produced. Chinese and indian migrants to the british west indies, 18381918. With new observations on nature and mankind by an officer of the king 1773. A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from european colonies to our modern diets in this eyeopening study, sidney mintz shows how europeans and americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign. Review was founded in 1976 by immanuel wallerstein as the official journal of the fernand braudel center for the study of economies, historical systems, and civilizations. Sidney mintzsworker in the caneis a model life history, uncovering the subtlest of dynamics within plantation society by tracing the experiences of a single individual and his family. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugars origins as a slave crop grown in europes tropical colonies with its use first as an. Charles mintz 18961940, american film producer and distributor. Yale university publications in anthropology download. Big sugar and the political economy of us agricultural policy 2 the first enslaved africans brought to the new world in 150305 worked on sugar plantations, and the last enslaved africans smuggled into cuba in the 1860s or 1870s worked on sugar plantationsa depressingly enduring continuity. Pdf sidney mintz and caribbean studies researchgate.
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