| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina. By Bertrand Van Ruymbeke. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xviii, 396 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-57003-583-0.)

From New Babylon to Eden is a richly detailed book that exemplifies a tenacious social historian's empirical approach to scholarship on Huguenots in colonial South Carolina, where Francophone Calvinist settlers played a prominent role in the formative period. Bertrand Van Ruymbeke's study is "devoted to the migrating generation of Carolina Huguenots" (p. xviii) and elucidates a transatlantic process of gradual "acculturation and creolization" (ibid.) to refute Jon Butler's controversial paradigm of "rapid and complete assimilation" (p. xvii) into the dominant order. He thus deepens our knowledge of the process on the ground by using a subtle tool kit to engage first-generation experience. He makes an excellent case that complex processes of accommodation arose out of Anglo-French integration in London, on the Continent, and in South Carolina during the period of recruitment under the first Earl of Shaftesbury and John Locke, and particularly after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). Van Ruymbeke thereby reshapes the useful concept of "double-migration" (ibid.)—where "refugees in England became economic migrants" to the colonies (pp. xviii)—by combining larger typological themes and developmental language derived from Atlantic history.

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