Synthesis
How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar
David Singerman
Synthesis
How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar
David Singerman
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the Black press provided a blueprint to help Black Americans transition from slavery and find opportunities to advance and prosper in American society. Among the vanguard of the Black press was Jefferson Lewis Edmonds, founder and editor of The Liberator newspaper.
Based on a massive array of overlooked primary sources, The Skeptic Isle presents a fast-paced narrative of the British attempt to sell World War II to its citizens. It weaves together government public relations, media reporting, political maneuvering, and the public's response to reinterpret some of the most famous moments of British history, from Chamberlain and appeasement to Churchill's great speeches, from the Battle of Britain to the military campaigns in the Mediterranean and Western Europe, from food rationing to the Beveridge Report.
Through a detailed study of a set of hitherto neglected Oxford institutions and the people who ran and inhabited them, this book has wide relevance for the history of higher education in England and its relationship with religious, social, demographic, cultural and political change over seven and a half centuries.
