The sugar barons : family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies
Title:
The sugar barons : family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies
Author:
Parker, Matthew.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Walker & Co., [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
xvii, 446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780802717443
Format :
Book
