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Global Food: European Sugar, Caribbean Plantations, African Slaves
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on November 16, 2013 (go to class or lectures)
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tropical, village, themselves, merchant, urbanites, Smith, capital, wealth, bourgeois, specialization, consumption, Vienna, colonization, global, village
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the explosion of world trade created vast pools of             
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                         began the accumulation of resources above what was necessary for societies to subsist or survive
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no longer did wealth come from the skimming off of what a                could produce
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now societies were being constructed primarily for the production of goods for other societies and specializing in this goods
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we see this above all in the formation of colonies
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designed from the start to produce commodities for other peoples'                       
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colonization was at the heart of              processes
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many global historians over look this
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colonies were once societies with                based structures
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there's something that happens to societies when they start producing goods and services that are not for                      and that they specialize in that
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                             is the opposite of self-sufficiency
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there is a connection between specialization of communities and a global division of labor
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artisans used to do every task to make a pin
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the division of labor
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what Adam            saw that something happens once we start to make things called factories
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provides two new relationships to the market: buy and sell your goods
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a pattern of dependency develops
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global interdependence
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the rise of the                  capitalists
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it's in Europe that we are going to see the development of concentrated pools of               
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indigenous people had to get their traditions access to networks and resources cut, and are forced to turn to the market place
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people begin to consume commodities which were once preciosities
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drugs
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the idea that we would all start to consume drugs on a mass scale is a product of the mercantile age
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tobacco
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Virginia was a colony created to produce tobacco for other people's consumption
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sugar, tobacco, tea, coffee clustered together
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people consumed these in cafes
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all of these were                 , indeed, the whole cocktail was narcotic
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tea house or coffee house was place for public gathering for                   
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to produce
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coffee comes from the Arabic term "Kawa", domesticated in Yemen
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Ottomans brought it to Istanbul after Yemen was seized in the early sixteenth century, by 1615 the habit of of drinking coffee had moved to             .
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what makes coffee drinkable is the sugar, and so sugar migrates, it has a biography
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this acquired taste and addiction trickles down
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increasingly becomes mass-produced
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drinking coffee, tea, with sugar, and smoking became part of the proper decor of a                    family
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the consumption of sugar trickled down to everyday habits of mass consumption
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behind European sugar consumption was the Caribbean sugar plantation done by slaves imported from Africa
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17th Century Interdependence of Trade and Investment
Francis Drake and Mercantilist Wars
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The Influence of Silver on the Ming Dynasty
Political Reverberations of Ming Consolidation
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The Industrial Revolution and the Transition of Non-Renewable Energy
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