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Author Parker, Matthew.

Title The sugar barons : family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies / Matthew Parker.

Publication Info. New York : Walker & Co., 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  972.9 PAR    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  917.29 PAR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  972.9 P22    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  972.9 PARKER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  338.1736 PARKER    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-432) and index.
Subject Sugar trade -- West Indies -- History.
Sugar growing -- West Indies -- History.
Sugar trade -- West Indies, British -- History.
Sugar growing -- West Indies, British -- History.
West Indies, British -- Economic conditions.
West Indies -- Economic conditions.
Europe -- Commerce.
Great Britain -- Commerce.
ISBN 9780802717443 hardcover $30.00
0802717446 hardcover $30.00
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