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

By:

Parker, Matthew

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Walker & Co. , 2011Description: xvii, 446 p. , [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, geneal. tables ; 25 cmISBN:

9780802717443

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.17 PAR

LOC classification:

MLCS 2007/00637 (P) PR9499.3.K23

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	338.17 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		042889

Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-432) and index.

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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