Englishmen transplanted
Subtitle: the English colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660
By: Larry Gragg.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: English -- Colonization -- Barbados; Planters -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century; Plantation life -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century; Barbados -- Civilization -- 17th century; Barbados -- Colonization; Barbados -- Social conditions -- 17th century; Barbados -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212) and index.