On the Rim of the Caribbean Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World

Name: On the Rim of the Caribbean Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World
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ISBN: 9780820345031

ISBN-10: 0820345032

ISBN-13: 9780820345031

Edition: 2013

Authors: Paul M. Pressly

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How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents?In On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British empire, led the colony into overseas trade. From this perspective, Pressly examines the ways in which Georgia came to…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Illustrations follow page


Preface


Maps


Introduction



The Three Georgias



Merging Planting Elites



The West Indies, Cornerstone of Trade



Savannah as a "Caribbean" Town



Merchants in a Creole Society



The Slave Trade in Creating a Black Georgia



The Making of the Lowcountry Plantation



Georgia's Rice and the Atlantic World



Retailing the "Baubles of Britain"



The Trade in Deerskins and Rum



Nationalizing the Lowcountry


Notes


Bibliography


Index