| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627–1660. By Larry Gragg. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv, 217 pp. $70.00, ISBN 0-19-925389-7.)
Early Barbados has fascinated historians of the Caribbean because it was the first English colony to undergo the "sugar revolution" and, one might add, the Africanization of its population in the seventeenth century. Larry Gragg sets out ostensibly to counteract the claims that Barbados represented a sort of topsy-turvy world for Englishmen, in which they abandoned much of England in the new tropical environment and led lives of wild abandon, distant from English cultural norms.	1
While Gragg demonstrates that English institutions were often transplanted, though certainly transformed and remade in the island, it is on the origins of the sugar revolution and the slave trade that the book is more likely to make its mark. Gragg has compiled the largest and most comprehensive array of sources of any scholar on Barbados and has worked through them methodically and carefully to produce what is a very impressive book.	. . .

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