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Parker, Matthew.
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Sugar trade -- West Indies -- History.
Sugar growing -- West Indies -- History.
Sugar trade -- West Indies, British -- History.
Sugar growing -- West Indies, British -- History.
West Indies, British -- Economic conditions.
West Indies -- Economic conditions.
Europe -- Commerce.
Great Britain -- Commerce.
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Parker, Matthew.
Sugar trade -- West Indies -- History.
Sugar growing -- West Indies -- History.
Sugar trade -- West Indies, British -- History.
Sugar growing -- West Indies, British -- History.
West Indies, British -- Economic conditions.
West Indies -- Economic conditions.
Europe -- Commerce.
Great Britain -- Commerce.
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Sugar barons : family, corruption, empire and war / Mathew Parker.
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Parker, Matthew.
Hutchinson, 2011.
Call #:
338
.1736
P242s
2011
Subjects
Sugar trade -- West Indies -- History.
Sugar growing -- West Indies -- History.
Sugar trade -- West Indies, British -- History.
Sugar growing -- West Indies, British -- History.
West Indies, British -- Economic conditions.
West Indies -- Economic conditions.
Europe -- Commerce.
Great Britain -- Commerce.
ISBN:
9780802777980 (pbk.)
9780091925833
0091925835
Description:
xvii, 446 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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338.1736 P242s 2011
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