The sugar barons : family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies /: family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Matthew Parker.
• Other Names: Parker, Matthew
• Contents: The pioneers. White gold, 1642 -- The first settlements, 1605-41 -- The sugar revolution: 'so noble an undertaking' -- The sugar revolution: 'most inhuman and barbarous persons' -- The plantation: masters and slaves -- The English civil war in Barbados -- The plantation: life and death -- Cromwell's 'western design': disaster in Hispaniola -- The invasion of Jamaica -- The grandees. The restoration -- Expansion, war and the rise of the Beckfords -- 'All slaves are enemies' -- The cousins Henry Drax and Christopher Codrington -- God's vengeance -- The planter at war: Codrington in the Leeward islands -- The French invasion of Jamaica -- Codrington the younger in the West Indies -- The murder of Daniel Parke -- The Beckfords: the next generation -- Piracy and rum -- The maroon war in Jamaica and the war of Jenkins's ear -- Barbados, the 'civilised island' -- Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica" 'tonight very lonely and melancholy again' -- Jamaica: rich and poor -- The sugar lobby -- The inheritors. Luxury and debt -- The war against America -- The West Indian 'Nabobs': absenteeism, decadence and decline -- Peace and freedom.
• Publisher Details: New York : Walker & Co
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 446 pages, [16] pages of plates), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 338.1/7/3609729; History -- General; Sugar trade -- West Indies -- History; Sugar growing -- West Indies -- History; Sugar trade -- West Indies, British -- History; Sugar growing -- West Indies, British -- History; Commerce; Economic history; Sugar growing; Sugar trade; History; West Indies, British -- Economic conditions; West Indies -- Economic conditions; Europe -- Commerce; Great Britain -- Commerce; Europe; Great Britain; West Indies; West Indies -- British West Indies; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780802777997; 0802777996
• Related ISBNs: 9780802717443; 0802717446
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-432) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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