By Matthew Parker
To people who trip there this present day, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. but that picture conceals a turbulent and stunning heritage. For a few 2 hundred years after 1650, the West Indies have been the strategic heart of the Western world's maximum strength struggles as Europeans made and misplaced substantial fortunes turning out to be and buying and selling in sugar-a commodity so profitable it turned often called "white gold." Matthew Parker vividly chronicles how the wealth of her island colonies turned the basis and concentration of England's advertisement and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economic climate and finally fueling the commercial Revolution. but with the great wealth got here untold distress: the horror continued by means of slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire used to be brutally equipped; the rampant sickness that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites inside of 3 years of arrival within the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation tradition. huge in scope, wealthy intimately, The Sugar Barons freshly hyperlinks the histories of Europe, the West Indies, and North the USA and divulges the total impression of the sugar revolution, the resonance of that's nonetheless felt at the present time.
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