The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies by Matthew Parker

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

Matthew Parker with Jonathan Cowley

16 hours, 20 minutes first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing on...

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