The Sugar Barons
Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
by Matthew Parker · first published 2011
100% recommend
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 became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately f
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This one book is filled with so much information. Hands down one of my favourite books. If you ever wanted to understand how sugar shaped the world. https://www.amazon.ca/Sugar-Barons-Family-Corruption-Empire/...
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