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The Sugar Barons

Matthew Parker

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 was known as white gold. Young men, beset by death and disease, an ocean away from the moral anchors of life in Britain, created immense dynastic wealth but produced a society poisoned by war, sickness, cruelty and corruption. The Sugar Barons explores the lives and experiences of those whose fortunes rose and fell with the West Indian empire. From the ambitious and brilliant entrepreneurs, to the grandees wielding power across the Atlantic, to the inheritors often consumed by decadence, disgrace and madness, this is the compelling story of how a few small islands and a handful of families decisively shaped the British Empire.

GenresWest IndiesHistorySugar plantationsSugar tradeGreat BritainColonies

454 pages, 10 editions

English edition · First published 2011 by Windmill · ISBN 9780099558453

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Editions

10 editions

English

  • The Sugar Barons · Windmill · 2012 · ISBN 9780099558453 This page
  • The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies · Tantor and Blackstone Publishing · 2021 · ISBN 9798200093045
  • The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies · Tantor and Blackstone Publishing · 2021 · ISBN 9798200093052
  • The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies · Walker & Co · 2011 · ISBN 9780802777997
  • The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies · Tantor Audio · 2011 · ISBN 9781452602615
  • The Sugar Barons · Cornerstone Digital · 2011 · ISBN 9781446473108
  • The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War · Hutchinson · 2011 · ISBN 9780091925833
  • The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies · Walker · 2011 · ISBN 9780802717443
  • The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies · Tantor Audio · 2011 · ISBN 9781452632612
  • The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies · Tantor Audio · 2011 · ISBN 9781452652610

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