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Sugar and civilization : American empire and the cultural politics of sweetness /
In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory parties an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill [North Carolina] :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Terminology
- Introduction
- 1. Sugar's Civilizing Mission: Immigration, Race, and the Politics of Empire, 1898-1913
- 2. Spectacles of Sweetness: Race, Civics, and the Material Culture of Eating Sugar after the Turn of the Century
- 3. This Peculiarly Indispensable Commodity: Commodity Integration and Exception during World War I
- 4. Commodity Cultures and Cross-Border Desires: Piloncillo between Mexico and the United States in the 1910s through the 1930s
- 5. From Cane to Candy: The Racial Geography of New Mass Markets for Candy in the 1920s
- 6. Sweet Innocence: Child Labor, Immigration Restriction, and Sugar Tariffs in the 1920s
- 7. Drowned in Sweetness: Integration and Exception in the New Deal Sugar Programs
- 8. New Deal, New Empire: Neocolonial Divisions of Labor, Sugar Consumers, and the Limits of Reform
- Epilogue: Imperial Consumers at War
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W.