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Author Jarvis, Michael (Michael J.), author.

Title In the eye of all trade : Bermuda, Bermudians, and the maritime Atlantic world, 1680-1783 / Michael J. Jarvis
Published Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (684 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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
Summary 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 as they shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled contraband in an expansive maritime sphere spanning Great Britain's North American and Caribbean colonies. He shows how humble sailors and seafaring slaves operating small family-owned vessels were significant but underappreciated agents of Atlantic integration. The American Revolution shattered interregional links that Bermudians had helped to forge. Reliant on North America for food and customers, Bermudians faced disaster. A bold act of treason enabled islanders to continue trade with their rebellious neighbors and helped them to survive and even prosper in an Atlantic world at war. Ultimately, however, the creation of the United States ended Bermuda's economic independence and doomed the island's maritime economy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-649) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sailors -- Bermuda Islands -- History -- 18th century
Enslaved persons -- Bermuda Islands -- History -- 18th century
Seafaring life -- Bermuda Islands -- History -- 18th century
Shipping -- Bermuda Islands -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- North America.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Commerce
Economic history
Economics
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Sailors
Seafaring life
Shipping
Enslaved persons
Social conditions
SUBJECT Bermuda Islands -- History, Naval -- 18th century
Bermuda Islands -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Bermuda Islands -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century
Bermuda Islands -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140162
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Economic aspects -- Bermuda Islands
Subject Bermuda Islands
United States
Genre/Form History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
ISBN 9781469600291
1469600293
0807872849
9780807872840