Author: Stein, Robert Louis
Title: The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century
Description: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ. Press, (1988). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xv,185 pp. Textual maps. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: Sugar in the Old Regime; The French West Indies: The Slave Trade; The Plantations; Muscovado & Clayed Sugar; The French West Indian Sugar Business; The Sugar Business in France: A National Perspective; Local Perspectives; Refining Sugar; The Local Refining Industries; To the Consumer; Conclusion.

Keywords: French Industrial History, France Old Regime, 18th-Century, Sugar Refining, Industry Economic, Colonies Economics, Colonial Caribbean, West Indies Colony, Agriculture Economy