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From extreme luxury to everyday commodity Sugar in Sweden, 17th to 20th centuries

Sammanfattning
This paper will focus upon the Swedish consumption of sugar, a product that illustrates the shift from being a luxury to being a mass-consumed commodity. Very little attention has been paid to the commodity of sugar by Swedish scholars, at least concerning the period prior to the introduction of the sugar beet in the late 19th century. The paper will try to answer three questions: - When did sugar experience a shift from luxury to everyday commodity? - What factors are important to explain the shift? - What impacts did the increasing sugar consumption have, at home and abroad? Regarding the last question, the paper most importantly presents a novel calculation of how large the ‘ghost acreage’ and slave labour population the Swedish consumption during the early modern era required.
Universitet
Göteborg University, School of Business, Economics and Law
Institution
Department of Economic History
Övrig beskrivning
Version updated 2008-01-29
URL:
http://hdl.handle.net/2077/7497
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Datum
2007-11-12
Författare
Rönnbäck, Klas
Nyckelord
Economic History
Price History
Consumption
Sugar
Sweden
Ghost acreage
Slavery
Publikationstyp
report
ISSN
1653-1000
Serie/rapportnr.
Göteborg Papers in Economic History
11
Språk
eng
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