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

Name: Sugar Barons Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
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ISBN: 9780802777980

ISBN-10: 0802777988

ISBN-13: 9780802777980

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Authors: Matthew Parker

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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 fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Matthew Parker gained a first-class degree in English at Oxford University and now works as a writer, editor and book reviewer who specialises in modern history.



Maps


Simplified Family Trees


Chronology


Picture Sources


Introduction 'Hot as Hell, and as Wicked as the Devil'



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 Isle'



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


Epilogue The Sins of the Fathers


Source Notes


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index