Istoriia sakhara: sladkaia i gor'kaia - Makinnis P.

Sugar... It's a bit of a lining. Familiar since childhood sweetness. But how did any of us think about the path she took before she got to our table? And what path did sugar come through the centuries and countries before it became commonplace in every home? And of course, hardly anyone imagined sugar as an important actor on the historical stage. In this book, the amazing history of the sugar industry is bizarrely intertwined with the very insipid history of mankind. In different eras it became the cause of bloody wars and prosperity of entire peoples, a symbol of slave labor and innumerable wealth, inhuman suffering and human passions. In the pages of the book, as in the adventure novel - slaves and planters, famous filibusters and crowned persons, alchemists and great scientists. Sugar... Good or evil? Sweet - or still bitter? Curious and little-known facts, paradoxical conclusions, graceful ironic style - all this makes the book of Peter McInnis extremely fascinating for all who are interested not only in the history of the "sweet" industry, but also in the world history as a whole.