CONTENTS

About the author

Acknowledgments

Note on measurements and money

Preface

Introduction

1 The beginnings

2 The spread of sugar

3 Sugar in the New World

4 The English and the Sugar Business

5 Fighting over sugar

6 A science of sugar

7 Rum and politics

8 The end of slavery in the Americas

9 Emancipation’s harvest

10 The rise of technology

11 Labour problems

12 Sugar in the twentieth century

Epilogue: The costs and benefits

Glossary

References