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