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
2Orientation for the Listener
3Acknowledgements
4Introduction The World Inside the Crystal
5Chapter One The Innocence of Sweetness
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6Chapter Two Before the Plantation
7Chapter Three The Sugar Revolution
8Chapter Four The Plantation Machine
9Chapter Five Race as the Plantation’s Operating Code
10Chapter Six Financing the Harvest
11Chapter Seven Sweetening Industrial Life
12Chapter Eight Emancipation Without Deplantation
13Chapter Nine Counter-Plantation Worlds
14Chapter Ten Saint Kitts and Nevis: The Island as Plantation
15Chapter Eleven Buckley’s 1935: When the Cane Fields Spoke Politically
16Chapter Twelve The Long Ending of Sugar
17Chapter Thirteen The Metabolic Afterlife
18Chapter Fourteen Reparative Accounting
19Chapter Fifteen Recovering Sweetness
20A Final Listener’s Guide
21Note on the Referenced Academic Edition
22About the Author
23Production Note
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