Odious Commerce
Subtitle: Britain, Spain and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780521524698
Subjects: Slavery & emancipation; World history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History: World; History; History - General History; Cuba; Europe - Great Britain - General; International - General; Latin America - General; Business & Economics-International - General; History / Great Britain; History / Renaissance; History-Latin America - General
First sentence: From the middle of the eighteenth century Cuba began to experience the remarkable economic growth which was to transform the island from a relative backwater of Spain's colonial empire into the world's richest colony and leading sugar producer by the late 1820s.