The World of Sugar. How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years, Paperback

Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a mania in the West, transforming diets and ecosystems, destroying and creating cultures, and shaping the history of bondage and freedom. A major source of calories only since 1900, sugar has suddenly revolutionized our world.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Author(s): Ulbe Bosma
• Illustration(s): 13 photos, 9 illus.
• Number of pages: 464
• Publication date: 2025
• Dimensions: 210 x 141 x 34
• Cover type: Paperback / softback