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Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados 1627-1660
Englishmen Transplanted The English Colonization of Barbados 16271660 Author:Larry Gragg 'Englishmen Transplanted' challenges the widely accepted view of seventeenth-century Barbados planters as reckless fortune seekers who failed to create a viable society in the tropics. Rather, it argues they were settlers eager to transplant what was familiar to them: political and religious institutions, the nuclear family, and traditi... more »onal views about social order, housing, and apparel.« less