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Englishmen Transplanted
Larry Dale Gragg
其他書名
The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660
出版Oxford University Press, 2003
主題Business & Economics / Economic HistoryHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)History / WorldHistory / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / Caribbean & West Indies / GeneralHistory / Social HistoryLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
ISBN01992538979780199253890
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZkgDbKJWAV8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Larry Gragg challenges the prevailing view of the seventeenth-century English planters of Barbados as architects of a social disaster. Most historians have described them as profligate and immoral, as grasping capitalists who exploited their servants and slaves in a quest for quick riches in the cultivation of sugar. Yet they were more than rapacious entrepreneurs. Like English emigrants to other regions in the empire, sugar planters transplanted many familiar governmental and legal institutions, eagerly started families, abided by traditional views about the social order, and resisted compromises in their diet, apparel, and housing, despite their tropical setting. Seldom becoming absentee planters, these Englishmen developed an extraordinary attraction to Barbados, where they saw themselves, as one group of planters explained in a petition, as 'being Englishmen transplanted'."--BOOK JACKET.