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The Sugar Barons (Paperback)
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The Sugar Barons (Paperback)
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List price R409
Loot Price R335
Discovery Miles 3 350
You Save R74 (18%)
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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.
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