Parker, Matthew <br/><br/>
The sugar barons  : family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies 
/ Matthew Parker 
 - New York  : Walker & Co.  , 2011 
 - xvii, 446 p. , [16] p. of plates  : ill., maps, geneal. tables  ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-432) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780802717443 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007389676 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sugar trade----History
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>West Indies---Economic conditions<br/>Europe----Commerce
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>MLCS 2007/00637 (P)   PR9499.3.K23 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.17 PAR