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In the eye of all trade : Bermuda, Bermudians, and the maritime Atlantic world, 1680-1783
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In the eye of all trade : Bermuda, Bermudians, and the maritime Atlantic world, 1680-1783 / Michael J. Jarvis.
ISBN
9780807833216 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807833215 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Physical Description
684 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 26, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: In the eye of all trade : Bermuda, Bermudians, and the maritime Atlantic world, 1680-1783
Colonizing paradise : the Somers Islands Company and colony
Bermuda's turn to the sea, 1685-1715
Bermuda's maritime economy 1 : circumatlantic shipping and smuggling, 1715-1775
Bermuda's maritime economy 2 : working the Atlantic commons, 1690-1775
A seafaring people : Bermuda's maritime society
Maritime migration, trade, and Atlantic families
Navigating the American Revolution
Epilogue: From seaport to sentry post : the decline of maritime Bermuda, 1783-1820
Conclusion: Fate, contingency, and the development of maritime America.
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