In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory…
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- 1. Sugar's Civilizing Mission: Immigration, Race, and the Politics of Empire, 1898-1913 -- 2. Spectacles of Sweetness: Race, Civics, and the Material Culture of Eating Sugar after the Turn of the Ce…
Demonstrates that trade policies and consumer cultures are as crucial to understanding U.S. empire as military or diplomatic interventions. Merleaux argues that ideas about race and civilization shaped sugar markets since government policies and business practices hinged on the …
In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory…