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The World of Sugar
“An extraordinary achievement.” —David Edgerton, Literary Review “A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry have shaped the world in which we live.” —Gary Taubes, author of The Case Against Sugar For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How did sugar find its way into almost all the food we eat, fostering illness and ecological crisis along the way? The World of Sugar begins with the earliest evidence of sugar production, tracing its origins in India around the sixth century BC and showing how its introduction to Europe in the Middle Ages sp...
Neutrality as a Policy Choice for Small/Weak Democracies
In this book, Michael F. Palo explains how a historical and theoretical examination of Belgian neutrality, 1839-1940, can help readers understand the behaviour of small/weak democracies in the international system.
Social Europe, the Road Not Taken
This book examines the European Left's attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration-a 'social Europe'-during the long 1970s. Based on fresh archival material, it shows that the western European Left-in particular social democratic parties, trade unions, and to a lesser extent 'Eurocommunist' parties-formulated a project to turn 'capitalist Europe' into a 'workers' Europe'. This project favoured coordinated measures for wealth redistribution, market regulation, a democratisation of the economy and of European institutions, upward harmonisation of social and fiscal systems, more inclusive welfare regimes, guaranteed employment, economic and social planning wit...
European Integration and the Global Financial Crisis
Offering a fresh take on a crucial phase of European history, this book explores the years between the 1980s and 1990s when the European Union took shape. Whilst contributing to existing literature on the Maastricht Treaty and European integration at the end of the twentieth century, the book also brings those debates into the twenty-first century and makes connections with longer-term issues. The transformation of the European political climate in the wake of the global financial crisis in 2008, and the watershed Brexit vote in 2016, has made it all the more urgent to reconsider the way scholars and opinion-makers have looked at European integration in the past. Drawing from recently releas...
Politics and Social Visions
The starting point of this book is the 'civil war' of ideas that broke out during the early 2010s about the purpose and even the desirability of the European Union as a polity, with a number of right-wing populist formations openly advocating for exiting the Union. The sovereign debt crisis triggered a spiral of ideological decommunalization: national leaders seemed to have lost that sense of 'togetherness' and mutual bonds that had been laboriously developed over decades of integration. Politics and Social Visions explores this politically disruptive process from an ideational perspective, on the assumption that symbols and visions play a crucial role. In processes of polity formation, ideo...
설탕
희귀품에서 식생활의 필수 요소가 되기까지 인간의 삶을 바꿔놓은 설탕의 세계사 인류사 대부분의 기간 동안 사람들은 정제 설탕 없이 살았지만, 오늘날 우리는 설탕을 피하기가 오히려 어려운 세상에 살고 있다. 설탕은 우리의 식생활을 근본적으로 바꿨고, 노예제와의 긴밀한 관계를 통해 인간관계에 깊은 영향을 미쳤으며, 극심한 환경 오염과 건강 문제를 초래했다. 소수만이 맛볼 수 있던 희귀품이 어떻게 우리가 먹는 거의 모든 음식에 들어가고 그 과정에서 많은 부작용을 낳게 되었을까? 이 책 《설탕》은 그 과정을 치밀...
