In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.

This book tells about sugar, an essential agricultural commodity, including where and how sugar is produced and its importance in the global economy.

The modern successor to Sweetness and Power, James Walvin's Sugar is a rich and engaging work on a topic that continues to change our world.

How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic?

Prior to 1600, sugar was a costly luxury, the domain of the rich. But with the rise of the

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Meredith Gentry meets Covert Affairs!Meet Sugar, a deadly assassin, and enter a shadowy world of crimes as dangerous as it is thrilling.Sugar Cane, the world's most feared assassin, has made a career of erasing problems. But when her own identity is exposed, Sugar's world begins to unravel.With her life hanging precariously in the balance, Sugar must navigate a treacherous landscape of deception and betrayal to unmask the mastermind behind her downfall....

While Caleb Thorn was a junior at the University of Michigan, he had a relationship with a wealthy and closeted auto executive named Alex Hale. When Alex contacts Caleb fourteen years later to meet, Caleb finds himself experiencing a flood of memories about Alex. At the start of their relationship, Caleb was enamored with Alex and enjoyed having a secret relationship with a sexy older man who bought him expensive gifts, but he soon comes to realize...

The year is 1936, and Val Svenson just can't win. Mixed up with mobsters, he witnesses something he really shouldn't have and has to literally run for his life. He takes the first bus out of New York for anywhere and winds up in Alabama-of all places to land for a tough city kid and a glamorous drag performer stage-named Sugar. To make matters worse, he becomes ill and has to be hospitalized.A year later, he's finally out of the hospital after being...