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Sugar barons : family, corruption, empire and war
- Title
- Sugar barons : family, corruption, empire and war / Mathew Parker.
- Author
- Parker, Matthew.
- Publication
- London : Hutchinson, 2011.
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- Description
- xvii, 446 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Focuses on key moments in the story of the first British Empire's rise and fall: the sugar revolution in Barbados which made the English a nation of voracious consumers and transformed the island from a backward outpost into the richest English colony in the world, powered by tens of thousands of enslaved Africans; the change to state-driven imperialism with Cromwell's disastrous 'Western Design' and the bitter wars against the French; the zenith of Jamaican opulence, and the island's subsequent calamitous decline; and, the growing revulsion against slavery that led to Emancipation.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-432) and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-331
- ISBN
- 0091925835
- 9780091925833
- LCCN
- 2011431668
- OCLC
- 719728956
- Author
- Parker, Matthew.
- Title
- Sugar barons : family, corruption, empire and war / Mathew Parker.
- Imprint
- London : Hutchinson, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-432) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-331