In the Eye of All Trade Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783

Name: In the Eye of All Trade Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
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ISBN: 9780807872840

ISBN-10: 0807872849

ISBN-13: 9780807872840

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael J. Jarvis

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In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position "in the eye of all trade."Jarvis takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops and follows white and enslaved sailors as they shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, harvested timber, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled contraband in an expansive maritime sphere spanning Great Britain's North American and Caribbean colonies. In doing…

Book details

List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.55" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English

Michael J. Jarvis is associate professor of history at the University of Rochester.