TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jarvis,Michael
AU  - Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
TI  - In the eye of all trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the maritime Atlantic world, 1680-1783 
T2  - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
SN  - 9781469600291
AV  - F1637 .I584 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Sailors
KW  - Bermuda Islands
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - Shipping
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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