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Provides an original and challenging perspective on the history of chocolate, questioning the romantic images of the commodity offered in marketing campaigns. It weaves together a variety of previously unexamined sources including oral histories of women workers, advertising material from the Rowntree and Cadbury companies and archival material. -- .

Table of Contents

General Editor's introduction
Introduction
1. ‘A deep physical reason’: gender, race and the nation in chocolate consumption
2. ‘The Romance of the Cocoa Bean’: imperial and colonial histories
3. ‘There is no operation involved with cocoa that I didn’t do’: women’s experiences of cocoa farming
4. Minstrels, missionaries and the Minster: race, imperialism and the historic city
5. ‘I think I was the only Chinese girl working there’: race and gender in the chocolate factory
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Chocolate Women and Empire

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/31/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719090059, 978-0719090059
      ISBN10: 0719090059

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Provides an original and challenging perspective on the history of chocolate, questioning the romantic images of the commodity offered in marketing campaigns. It weaves together a variety of previously unexamined sources including oral histories of women workers, advertising material from the Rowntree and Cadbury companies and archival material. -- .

      Table of Contents

      General Editor's introduction
      Introduction
      1. ‘A deep physical reason’: gender, race and the nation in chocolate consumption
      2. ‘The Romance of the Cocoa Bean’: imperial and colonial histories
      3. ‘There is no operation involved with cocoa that I didn’t do’: women’s experiences of cocoa farming
      4. Minstrels, missionaries and the Minster: race, imperialism and the historic city
      5. ‘I think I was the only Chinese girl working there’: race and gender in the chocolate factory
      Conclusion
      Bibliography
      Index

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