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008			120120s2011 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2007389676
020			_a9780802717443
025			_aI-E-2007-389676; 26
042			_alcode
050	0	0	_aMLCS 2007/00637 (P) _a PR9499.3.K23
082	0		_a338.17 PAR
100	1		_aParker, Matthew
245	1	4	_aThe sugar barons _b: family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies _c/ Matthew Parker
260			_aNew York _b: Walker & Co. _c, 2011
300			_axvii, 446 p. , [16] p. of plates _b: ill., maps, geneal. tables _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [365]-432) and index.
520			_aHistorian 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.
650		4	_aSugar trade _x--History
651			_aWest Indies _x-Economic conditions
651		4	_aEurope _x--Commerce
942			_cMO
999			_c249523 _d249523