Sugar Barons. Family, corruption, empire and war
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- Author(s) Parker, Matthew
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2011
- Pages 446pp; illus
- Publisher Hutchinson
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Written for a broad readership dealing with the sugar plantation industry in the West Indies and with the wider sugar trade, in particular the British planters, their methods, their wealth, their exploitation, their loss of moral compass, etc. Structured in three parts: 1] 'The pioneers'; 2] 'The grandees'; 3] 'The inheritors'. Covers in particular the Beckford family of Jamaica, the Codrington family of Barbados and elsewhere in West Indies, and the Drax family of Barbados, especially Sir James Drax. Includes family trees of all three families