An Award-Winning Book
  Jamestown Foundation Award
  Walter D. Love Memorial Prize
  Finalist, National Book Award

“[Features] lively and well-informed discussions of the West Indian economy, society, culture, and political organization in the seventeenth century.”

--Elsa V. Goveia


“A study of major importance: the first systematic and extended account of the emergence and character of an elite group for any of the English colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. . . . Dunn not only provides the most solid and precise account ever written of the social development of the British West Indies down to 1713, he also challenges some traditional historical cliches.”

--Jack P. Greene