The Sweet Taste of Empire (Record no. 67111)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781512827866
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : International Book Distributors
Distributor address : Flat No.- 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Bill Number ; 122509
Bill Date : 18/02/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 338.17 HAL
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hal. Kim F.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Sweet Taste of Empire
Remainder of title : Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Kim F. Hall
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , Philadelphia
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : University of Pennsylvania Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2025.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xi, 377p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 4073
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Over the course of the seventeenth century, sugar prices fell drastically. As this newly affordable luxury made its way from royal entertainments to the closets of home cooks in ever increasing quantities, sugar bound England’s fortunes to the Caribbean. The pursuit of sugar’s pleasures and profits generated newly visible and vexed relationships—not simply between enslaved and enslaver but also between enslaved and consumer—that threatened the English sense of the nation, the household, and the self.<br/><br/>The Sweet Taste of Empire explores how the unique emphasis the English placed on confections as a marker of status and national identity offered a framework for grappling with changing notions of race, gender, labor, and domesticity that shaped early colonization. Tracing the literal and literary uses of sugar in seventeenth-century England, Kim F. Hall shows how literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slavery, developing a culinary language that functioned as a discourse of pleasure and white innocence. In turn, Hall argues, Caribbean sugar production influenced domestic consumption and trade in England, as well as the very notion of what it meant to be English.<br/><br/>Drawing on a wide range of early Anglo-Caribbean texts—from cookbooks and banquet menus to economic poetry, to maps and treatises on plantation labor and health—Hall uncovers what she calls a plantation aesthetic, in which writers mobilize ways of seeing from pastoral, georgic, and landscape discourses when addressing issues of race and enslavement. This plantation aesthetic reveals deep worry over the threat African slavery poses to the imagined idea of English plantations as idealized agrarian life, ultimately shaping the history of both English slavery and the later anti-slavery response. Recentering the Caribbean in early modern literary studies, The Sweet Taste of Empire sheds new light on the aesthetic and the poetic in the archives of Caribbean enslavement.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sugar and Mastery
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mastery and Pleasure
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Taste of Empire
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kim F Hall
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 24/02/2026 International Book Distributors 4073.00   338.17 HAL 31348 24/02/2026 24/02/2026 Books
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