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 | #150847 in Books |  2012-11-13 |  2012-11-13 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x1.21 x5.56l,.97 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War in the West Indies: all of that and more|By Natacha Pelaez Wagner|An excellently written and well researched account of the development of the sugar empires in the new world in the 1600 and 1700s, and the European wars for its dominance. While very educational and informative, it flows well and is not textbook-like or stilted| |"Gripping....A compendium of greed, horrible ingenuity, and wickedness, but also a fascinating and thoughtful social history." - William Dalrymple, author of "The Last Mughal" and "Nine Lives" "[A] minutely detailed portrait of one corner of Britain's constant

To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some two hundred years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the Western world's greatest power struggles as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar-a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold." Matthew Parker vividly chronicles how the wealth of her island colonies beca...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies   |  Matthew Parker. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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