Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados 1627-1660

by Larry Gragg

'Englishmen Transplanted' challenges the widely accepted view of seventeenth-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 political and religious institutions, the nuclear family, and traditional views about social order, housing, and apparel.

232 pages, Hardcover

First published October 9, 2003

About the author

Larry Gragg is Curators' Teaching Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. For the past two decades he has made an annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas and wistfully echoes a familiar sentiment: "The reason I like Las Vegas is because it's almost all the things that I am not." He is the author of six other books, most recently John F. Kennedy: A Biography.