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Refined Tastes

Name: Refined Tastes
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
SKU: 9780801868764
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Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America

Szerző: Wendy A. Woloson

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Johns Hopkins University Press

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American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked t...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Wendy A. Woloson

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2002

oldal

296

EAN

9780801868764

ISBN

0801868769

Enbook ID

04709143

Kiadó

Johns Hopkins University Press

Súly

590

Méretek

152 x 229 x 24

Teljes leírás

American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked to hyperactivity in children and other health concerns. Yet two hundred years ago American consumers treasured sugar as a rare commodity and consumed it only in small amounts. In Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America, Wendy A. Woloson demonstrates how the cultural role of sugar changed from being a precious luxury good to a ubiquitous necessity. Sugar became a social marker that established and reinforced class and gender differences. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Woloson explains, the social elite saw expensive sugar and sweet confections as symbols of their wealth. As refined sugar became more affordable and accessible, new confections-children's candy, ice cream, and wedding cakes-made their way into American culture, acquiring a broad array of social meanings. Originally signifying male economic prowess, sugar eventually became associated with femininity and women's consumerism. Woloson's work offers a vivid account of this social transformation-along with the emergence of consumer culture in America.