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Sugar barons : family, corruption, empire and war /

Focuses on key moments in the story of the first British Empire's rise and fall, including 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...

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Main Author:	Parker, Matthew
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Hutchinson, 2011.
Subjects:	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.

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