The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies

By Matthew Parker

Book Overview

For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802717446
• ISBN13: 9780802717443
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Walker Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.5" x 6.5"