Plantations of Antigua : the Sweet Success of Sugar (Volume 2): A Biography of the Historic Plantations Which Made Antigua a Major Source of the World's Early Sugar Supply - Agnes C. Meeker MBE

Plantations of Antigua

the Sweet Success of Sugar (Volume 2): A Biography of the Historic Plantations Which Made Antigua a Major Source of the World's Early Sugar Supply

By: Agnes C. Meeker MBE, Donald A. Dery (As told to)

Paperback | 19 October 2018

At a Glance

Paperback


$71.61

or 4 interest-free payments of $17.90 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 7 to 10 business days

When will this arrive by?
Enter delivery postcode to estimate

Sugar.

It sits there, dormant, nestled in a small bowl or serving-size packet, waiting to be spooned into a cup of coffee or tea, spread across some cereal, or dropped into a recipe for cake, pie, or other scrumptious treat in the making. It is so readily available, so easy to use, and so irresistibly tasty.

But few people stop to realize the enormous economic, social, political, even military upheaval this simple-looking, widely popular food enhancer has caused in many parts of the world. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, even into the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth, sugar cane was a preeminent crop upon which economies succeeded or failed, societies grew, and money flowed like . . . well, sugar!

A region particularly impacted by sugar was the volcanic islands of the Caribbean-virgin soil enriched by crushed coral and limestone and blessed by unlimited sunshine. The result was soil so rich for planting that the necklace of island colonies and small nation-states became a massive source of the world's supply of sugar. Antigua's 108 square miles, an island of undulating hills and indented coastline, fell into this category.

You Can Find This Book In

Other Editions and Formats

Hardcover

Published: 20th October 2017

Hardcover

Published: 19th October 2018

More in History

Emperor of the Seas : Kublai Khan and the Making of China - Jack Weatherford
Ancestors : A prehistory of Britain in seven burials - Alice Roberts
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

RRP $22.99

$21.90

Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture - Bruce Pascoe
The Catalpa Rescue - Peter FitzSimons

RRP $36.99

$33.25

10%
OFF
Junior Atlas of Indigenous Australia - Macquarie Dictionary

RRP $39.99

$27.80

30%
OFF
The Journals of Captain Cook : Penguin Classics - James Cook
History of Western Philosophy : Routledge Classics - Bertrand Russell
The Gulag Archipelago : 1918-56 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

RRP $37.99

$33.90

11%
OFF
Night : Penguin Modern Classics - Elie Wiesel

RRP $22.99

$17.75

23%
OFF
Girt : The Unauthorised History of Australia - David Hunt

RRP $36.99

$33.25

10%
OFF
The Origins of Totalitarianism : Penguin Modern Classics - Hannah Arendt

This product is categorised by