The Sugar Barons

The Sugar Barons
Random House
sku: 957615
742.00 грн.
Shipping from: Ukraine
   Description
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
   Technical Details
author: Метью Паркер
pages: 480
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