SHUM 3010

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SHUM 3010
Sweetness: How Sugar Built the Modern World

Course information provided by the 2020-2021 Catalog.

When sugar "was king," that is, when it was valued in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as we might value petroleum today, European nations went to war in order to possess the sugar producing islands in the Caribbean. Sugar production, slave labor, and the transatlantic trade that they generated were crucial for European empire building and the creation of the enormous wealth that, in comparison with earlier historical periods, rapidly revolutionized agriculture, nutrition, industry, labor, and free trade; racialized Caribbean peoples; and gave rise to transatlantic debates on freedom, abolitionism, and humanitarian philanthropy. Readings include A. Stuart, Sugar in the Blood, S. Mintz, Sweetness and Power, C.L.R. James, Black Jacobins. Films include, Gutiérrez Alea's The Last Supper and M. Kalatozov's I am Cuba.


Distribution Category (HA-AS, HST-AS, SSC-AS)

When Offered Fall.

Breadth Requirement (GHB)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3010, LATA 3015, ROMS 3010

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 18657 SHUM 3010   LEC 001

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    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Aching, G

  • Instruction Mode: Online