The Sweetness That Consumed the World
Sugar, Plantation Modernity, and the Long Metabolic Afterlife of EmpireBy Bichara Sahely
Length16h 14m
About this audiobook
The Sweetness That Consumed the World traces sugar from an ordinary source of pleasure to one of the defining institutions of Atlantic modernity. Moving across plantation slavery, race, law, finance, industrial consumption, labour struggle, public health, and the long history of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Bichara Sahely reveals how sweetness was made abundant by displacing human, ecological, and social costs onto distant lives and places.
The book introduces the ideas of the displaced balance sheet, emancipation without deplantation, the counter-plantation, and the metabolic afterlife. It culminates in a constructive vision of reparative accounting and deplantation: restoring land, health, memory, nourishment, and public authority around the protection, restoration, and enlargement of life.
This listener’s edition is adapted for continuous narration while preserving the complete argument.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, Business and Economics
Length16 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 23, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Note to the Listener
13Chapter Nine Counter-Plantation Worlds
2Orientation for the Listener
14Chapter Ten Saint Kitts and Nevis: The Island as Plantation
3Acknowledgements
15Chapter Eleven Buckley’s 1935: When the Cane Fields Spoke Politically
4Introduction The World Inside the Crystal
16Chapter Twelve The Long Ending of Sugar
5Chapter One The Innocence of Sweetness
17Chapter Thirteen The Metabolic Afterlife
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6Chapter Two Before the Plantation
18Chapter Fourteen Reparative Accounting
7Chapter Three The Sugar Revolution
19Chapter Fifteen Recovering Sweetness
8Chapter Four The Plantation Machine
20A Final Listener’s Guide
9Chapter Five Race as the Plantation’s Operating Code
21Note on the Referenced Academic Edition
10Chapter Six Financing the Harvest
22About the Author
11Chapter Seven Sweetening Industrial Life
23Production Note
12Chapter Eight Emancipation Without Deplantation
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF CREDITDr. Bichara Sahely3h 56mFree
THE ANCHOR HOLDS — BUT WHAT DOES IT HOLD?Dr. Bichara Sahely1h 41mFree
The Sovereign Enclosure of LifeDr. Bichara Sahely9h 51mFree
Letting the Wound Update the ModelDr. Bichara Sahely1h 27mFree
From the Fourth Phase to the Living InterfaceDr. Bichara Sahely2h 52mFree
FROM REGENERATIVE CULTURES TO LIFE-COHERENT BIOREGIONINGDr. Bichara Sahely6h 32mFree
The Symbolic WombDr. Bichara Sahely24h 29mFree
From Consumption to CommunionDr. Bichara Sahely6h 26mFree
The Evolution Of WorldsDr. Bichara Sahely1h 33mFree
A WORLD WAITING TO BE BROUGHT FORTHDr. Bichara Sahely58mFree
THE ENCLOSURE OF HEALTHCAREDr. Bichara Sahely1h 31mFree
Internal Medicine Made EasyDr. Bichara Sahely6h 5mFree
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