The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
Publisher: Walker Books; Walker & Co.
Published: Aug 16, 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780802717443
Description: 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.