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""Eagerly anticipated, this book will not disappoint. Kim F. Hall models an urgent humanist inquiry driven by accountability to historical subjects and to vulnerable citizens right now. A must read.""-- ""Frances E. Dolan, author of Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture"" ""Hall has a unique talent for showing, in her powerful close readings, how literary constructs mediated early modern English encounters with race and slavery in the Atlantic world off the page.""-- ""Noémie Ndiaye, author of Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race"" ""The Sweet Taste of Empire is an extraordinary work of intellectual artistry. Its exquisite prose will linger long after the initial reading. A premodern critical race studies masterpiece.""-- ""Margo Hendricks, author of Race and Romance: Coloring the Past"" ""Kim F. Hall's exquisite account of the dreams and paradoxes of sugar is one of those books that reframes how and what you see. The Sweet Taste of Empire will transform you--whether you enter this book from the vantage of premodern critical race studies, the history of early modern England, or of slavery, or of capitalism. Hall helps us to see the world in the grains of sugar.""-- ""Jennifer L. Morgan, author of Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic""

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Kim F. Hall is Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College.

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