Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833. A study in social and economic history

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Reprinted 1977. Scholarly early work. Charts and seeks to explain the collapse of the West Indies sugar industry and the British planter class associated with it. Structured in two parts. Part 1] 'The old plantation system' - 'Caribbean society in the eighteenth century'; 'Tropical American agriculture'; 'West India commercial relations'; Part 2] 'The decline of the sugar islands' - 'Development of the ceded islands'; 'The sugar colonies during the American Revolution'; 'The new era of restricted mainland trade'; 'The insular possessions in the French war'; 'The abolition movement'; 'Agrarian distress in the old Caribbean holdings'; 'The West India Question'; 'The registration controversy'; 'The overthrow of the tropical labor regime'