The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
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- 9780802717443
The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies is a commerce, sugar trade book by Matthew Parker.
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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.
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The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies is a Commerce, Sugar trade, Economic conditions, Sugar growing, History book.
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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, Jamai...
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The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies was written by Matthew Parker.