How Sugar Enslaved the World

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The first 100 people to use code PRESENTPAST at the link below will get 60% off of Incogni: https://incogni.com/presentpast Sugar is everywhere around us. But just 500 years ago the value of sugar was measured in gold. What changed? 00:00 - 00:33 - Intro 00:33 - 01:45 - Sugar is everywhere 01:45 - 03:41 - Paying the bills with Incogni 03:41 - 05:14 - Origins 05:14 - 06:20 - Sugar becomes a thing in europe 06:20 - 07:47 - Spreading sugar over the world 07:47 - 09:01 - How do you make sugar actually 09:01 - 13:40 - Abolition and modern times 13:41 - 16:50 - How sugar got so big 16:50 - 17:30 - cApiTAlIsm 17:31 - 19:47 - its everywhere 19:47 - 20:55 - consumer actions right now Sources: Ulbe Bosma (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) - The world of Sugar. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674279391 I couldn't have made this video without this epic overview of the history of sugar production. Theres so much I had to leave out, but check out this book if you want to know more. Sidney W. Mintz - Sweetness and power https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/322123/sweetness-and-power-by-sidney-w-mintz/ An anthropologic view of sugar consumption. Very well written, that juicy english cuisine quote come from this book. Michael Moss - Salt, Sugar and Fat https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/0812982193 Insightful book in how the food we eat is engineered to make us want more and more and more. McCants, Anne E. C. “Poor Consumers as Global Consumers: The Diffusion of Tea and Coffee Drinking in the Eighteenth Century.” The Economic History Review 61, no. S1 (2008): 172–200. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40057651. If you want to know how amazingly fast coffee and tea found their way into even the poorest households do check this out. Noel Deer - The History of sugar https://books.google.si/books/about/The_History_of_Sugar.html?id=o1xFAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y An older tome, but it has good statistics on the sugar trade. Hi there, my name is Jochem Boodt. I make the show The Present Past, where I show how the present has been influenced by the past. History, but connected to the present and fun! Every episode I show how history has influenced and made a thing, an idea or event in our present time. I make different content. You can find me on: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepresentpast Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_presentpast/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/@ThePresent_Past Logo by: https://www.instagram.com/multicolor_junkie/ If you have an idea for an episode please fill in this form: https://www.dropbox.com/request/nMMMSpoNWUJHBIZ8hJRu