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'Englishmen Transplanted'
The English Colonization of Barbados 1627-1660
Av Larry Gragg
Inbunden, 2003
3980 kr
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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 …
Bright Light City
Las Vegas in Popular Culture
Av Larry Gragg
Inbunden, 2013
511 kr
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When Elvis crooned “Bright light city . . . gonna set my soul on fire,” he voiced and embraced the siren call of a glittering urban utopia that continues to mesmerise millions. Call it Sin City or Lost Wages, Las Vegas definitely deserves its rapturous “Viva!” Larry Gragg, however, invites readers …
Quaker Community on Barbados Volume 1
Challenging the Culture of the Planter Class
Av Larry Gragg
Inbunden, 2009
389 kr
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Prior to the Quakers' large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. But on this island of sugar plantations, Quakers confronted material temptations and had to temper founder George Fox's admonitions regarding slavery with the demoralizing realities …
