Bibliograph

The sugar barons, family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies, Matthew Parker

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The sugar barons, family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies, Matthew Parker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplatesmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The sugar barons

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

682894539

Responsibility statement

Matthew Parker

Sub title

family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies

Summary

Historian Matthew Parker discusses the history behind one of the greatest power struggles of the 17th to 19th centuries as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar--a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold'--in the tiny Caribbean islands of Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands

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