Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.
Sugar production and British Caribbean dependence on external markets, 1769-1776 -- The American war and the British Caribbean economy -- British policy, Canadian preference, and the West Indian economy, 1783-1810 -- The sugar market after 1775 -- Debt, decline, and the sugar industry, 1775-1810 -- New management techniques and planter reforms -- Hired slave labour -- British Caribbean slavery and abolition -- The sugar industry and eighteenth-century revolutions -- War, trade, and planter survival, 1793-1810 -- Profitability and decline: issues and concepts, an epilogue.
"Provides detailed examination of the political economy of sugar production in the British west Indies"--Book cover.
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Sugar trade--History.--West Indies, British Slavery--History.--West Indies, British Slaves--Emancipation--History.--West Indies, British Economic history. Slavery. Slaves--Emancipation. Sugar trade.
West Indies, British--Economic conditions. West Indies--British West Indies.