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• Title : The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
• Author : Matthew Parker
• Rating : 4.55 (320 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-5-4
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 464 Pages
• Asin : 0802777988
• Language : English

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Visit his website at matthewparker. Matthew Parker was born in Central America and spent part of his childhood in the West Indies, acquiring a lifelong fascination with the history of the region. He lives in London. He is the author of Panama Fever, the story of the building of the Panama Canal, and Monte Cassino: The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II.

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 became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture. Broad in scope, rich in detail, The Sugar Baro

Parker tells an extraordinary, neglected and shameful story with gusto.""--The Economist " "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 constantly illuminated empire." - "Booklist ""A rich, multifaceted account of the greed and slavery bolstering the rise of England's mercantile empire." - "Kirkus ""Successful both as a scholarly introduction to the topic and as an entertaining narrative, this is recommended for readers of any kind of history." - "Library Journal""This is a rousing, fluently written narrative history, full of color, dash, and forceful personalities, but it's also a subtle social por