Barbados
Subtitle: the sugar story
By: Geoffrey Badley.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Herbert Publ.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Christ Church, Barbados
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9789768219220
Subjects: Sugarcane industry -- Barbados -- History; Sugar trade -- Barbados -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-109).
Table of contents: title: 1625 to 1638 : establishing a foothold; title: 1639 to 1651 : the shift to sugar; title: 1652 to 1748 : a time of boom and bust; title: 1749 to 1838 : the plantocracy; title: 1839 to 1848 : a period of adjustment; title: 1849 to 1853 : increasing output; title: 1854 to 1884 : uneventful years and political turmoil; title: 1885 to 1894 : the falling price of sugar; title: 1895 to 1903 : economic crisis; title: 1904 to 1913 : establishing new sources of income; title: 1914 to 1921 : the World War I boom followed by collapse; title: 1922 to 1938 : rapid recovery and increasing production; title: 1939 to 1945 : constitutional change and World War II - 1946 to 1958 : economic stability and political progess; title: 1959 to 1962 : the federal fiasco; title: 1963 to 1974 : fire!; title: 1975 to 1993 : when everthing went wrong.