Essays on Sugar Trade

The little bowl of sugar on our table is often something we take for granted. The history of sugar is one of violence, greed, and oppression. Through the triangular trade between Africa, Europe, and the Americas starting in the 1600’s, it can be argued that...

Affluent Europeans bought sugar from local merchants, the demand for sugar so high that sugarcane growers were in need of more laborers to tend the crops. This demand caused the slave trade, originating in Africa, to expand, bringing slaves to the Americas to work the...

The authors, Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos purpose for writing, Sugar Changed the World is to inform readers how sugar was tied into families and many primary events in history. “Sugar Changed the World” was an informative text that shows how sugar got passed around...

Sugar has been a widely-used ingredient in the human diet for many years. Once, refined table sugar was expensive and rare to the point where it was called “white gold.” Today, white sugar is considered as a basic food item in everyday use. Sugar is...

Background The Australian sugar industry is one of the most vital industries to Australian agriculture as it is the second largest raw sugar exporter in the world behind Brazil. Almost all of the Australian sugar (95%) is produced in Queensland with about 5% being produced...

Though seemingly unrelated and irrelevant to each other, economic interactions between global and regional dynamics have greatly changed nearly every nation in our world. The Latin America and Caribbean region in particular has experienced the great strength of these forces, especially in driving environmental change....

What economic and intellectual factors promoted US imperialism in the late nineteenth century? In the Late nineteenth century the American industry was booming and the country was expanding and becoming more urbanized. Many American leaders pushed for United States imperialism for various economic, political and...