TY - JOUR
AU - Dunne, Michael
AB - Book Reviews 1077 a necessary but impure tropical good. Tariffs health and malnutrition led reformers to ideal- resulted, which favored mainland growers yiz et e the unrefined “primitive eating” that Amer- ensured a monopoly for refiners, treated each ican imperialists once aimed to discipline. territory differently, and caused overproduc- Merleaux’s geographically expansive and tion and price declines. By the 1930s, efforts deeply researched book is a welcome addition to raise prices included recognition of Philip- to work on empire, trade, and consumption. pine independence and New Deal attempts Her powerful epilogue on refined sugar’s cur- to increase wages and purchasing power in rent reframing as poor food for poor people Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Economic equality, making poor choices reminds us that inequali- however, was a substitute for political equality, ties persist in the empire. foreshadowing a liberal imperialism that tied Theresa Ventura political stability to consumption. Concordia University The sugar empire required consumers. Montreal, Canada Again, racism informed government and in- dustry strategies to encourage people to eat doi: 10.1093/jahist/jaw578 what were presumed to be healthy and afford- able sugar calories. Progressive Era images of A Sense of Power: The Roots of America’s Global children of color chewing 
TI - A Sense of Power: The Roots of America's Global Role
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jaw579
DA - 2017-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/a-sense-of-power-the-roots-of-america-s-global-role-Ye2arEDaz6
SP - 1077
EP - 1078
VL - 103
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -