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Refined tastes : sugar, confectionery, and consumers in nineteenth-century America /
"American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked to hyperactivity in children and other health concerns. Yet two hundred years ago American consumers treasured sugar as a rare commodity and consumed it only in small amounts. In Refined Tastes:...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ;
ser. 120, no. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked to hyperactivity in children and other health concerns. Yet two hundred years ago American consumers treasured sugar as a rare commodity and consumed it only in small amounts. In Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America, Wendy A. Woloson demonstrates how the cultural role of sugar changed from being a precious luxury good to a ubiquitous necessity. Sugar became a social marker that established and reinforced class and gender differences."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0801877180 9780801877186 0801868769 9780801868764 |