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Sugar: The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity by James Walvin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign... -
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 9780691220550
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern... -
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz 9780140092332
Booksplease Price: £12.55A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern dietsIn this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed... -
No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870 by Diana Paton 9780822334019 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £1.23Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of... -
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean by Carla Freeman 9780822324034 [USED COPY]
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £8.60High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman's fieldwork in Barbados...