Ages 8 to 14 years. What was the world like before sugar? Find out how the human desire for sweets made a tropical grass into a valuable commodity around the world. With the use of colourful images and maps, The Biography of sugar details how sugar grows, which countries produce it, and the sour history of slavery and exploitation that surrounded its early production. Other topics include: What is a commodity?; sources of sugar and where they are grown; the history of sugar and the sugar trade, from the ancient world, to medieval Europe, to the Caribbean; slavery and sugar plantations; the production and manufacture of sugar; environmental concerns of modern sugar cultivation; uses of sugar, from sweetening, to food preservation, to medicine; the development of sugar substitutes.
- ISBN10 0778725219
- ISBN13 9780778725213
- Publish Date 1 November 2009 (first published 28 February 2006)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 16 April 2014
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada
- Format Paperback
- Pages 32
- Language English