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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on June 21, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(3):734-736; doi:10.1093/es/khm061
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Frederick H. Smith. Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History

Frederick H. Smith. Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History. Gainesville, Fl.: University Press of Florida, 2005. xvi + 339 pp. ISBN 0-8130-2867-1; 978-0-8130-2867-5, $59.95 (cloth)

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Frederick Smith's early evocation (p. 2) of Sidney Mintz's 1985 master-work Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History is most unfortunate because Smith is no Mintz—except that they are both anthropologists. This sad little book suffers by comparison on most every page. In contrast to Mintz, it is not good social history, it is not good economic history, and it is not good anthropology. More particularly for readers of Enterprise Society, Caribbean Rum is not good . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John J. McCusker

Trinity University


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