BIBFRAME Work

Title

Unrefined

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Singerman, David (David Roth) (author )

Subject

• Sugar trade--History (LCSH)
• Sugar--Social aspects--History (LCSH)

Language

• eng

Classification

• DDC: 381/.45641336 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: HD9100.5 .S54 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"Just what is sugar? This question tormented nineteenth-century planters, scientists, and governments. Sugar was powerful: It colonized and enslaved people, held consumers in thrall, spurred new technologies, and was colossally profitable. David Singerman shows that sugar's grip over the world had as much to do with how knowledge about sugar was created and transmitted as it did with how it was grown and traded. Taking us to the laboratories where it was taxonomized, the docks where it was appraised, and the congressional sessions where tariffs on it were levied, Singerman threads together a novel, multifaceted history of this staple good"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The journey of purification -- Freedom from the New World -- A lever that squeezes -- There my responsibility begins -- Acarus sacchari -- The unpracticed eye -- The electric apartment -- Instructions relative to the use of the polariscope -- The sum of the errors -- Ups and downs -- Final receipt.

Authorized Access Point

Singerman, David (David Roth). Unrefined

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:11:22.270793+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24092897

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc