| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640–1700. By Susan Dwyer Amussen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 302 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3165-6. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5854-7.)

In this fine book, Susan Dwyer Amussen adds to the familiar picture of the economic impact of plantation slavery in England's West Indian colonies by exploring the social, cultural, and political impact of that slave system. While entering into the wide variety of debates that are the staple of slavery and Atlantic historiography, this English historian emphasizes "the English character of this story" (p. 11). As such, Caribbean Exchanges possesses the con siderable strengths of that imperial approach, as well as some weaknesses.

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