Bibliograph

The sugar barons, family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies, Matthew Parker

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The sugar barons, family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies, Matthew Parker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The sugar barons

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

682894539

Responsibility statement

Matthew Parker

Sub title

family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies

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

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