Title Englishmen transplanted : the English colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660 / Larry Gragg

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. First Impressions -- 3. Establishing a Colony, 1625-1660 -- 4. Transplanting Institutions -- 5. Making Money in the English Atlantic Economy -- 6. Finding Workers -- 7. Seeking Opportunity and Financing the Sugar Revolution -- 8. Creating an Orderly Society -- 9. Afterword: Lasting Impressions -- Bibliography -- Index Summary This volume challenges the widely accepted view of 17th-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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-212) and index Notes English Print version record Subject English -- Colonization -- Barbados Plantation owners -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century Plantation life -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century Civilization Colonization Economic history Plantation life Plantation owners Social conditions SUBJECT Barbados -- Civilization -- 17th century Barbados -- Colonization Barbados -- Social conditions -- 17th century Barbados -- Economic conditions -- 17th century Subject Barbados Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199253890 0199253897 9780191719806 0191719803

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