Role of Sugar in Development of British Power

Mintz points out that sugar was first discovered by Europeans as early as the year 1000 AD. However, it took centuries for the luxury good to permeate the social strata within Europe. By 1650, sugar was firmly established within the upper classes and nobility of British society. Only a century and a half later, in 1800, sugar had become rare and pricey necessity in the diet of every British person. By 1900, sugar accounted for nearly twenty percent of the calories in the average British personÆs daily diet (Mintz, 5-6). Indeed, Calorie-rich sugar became a substitute food that was used to fill the caloric insufficiency of the typical English workerÆs diet. Sugar became the staple foo

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