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

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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 this bo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pressly, Paul M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Plantations.
Economic history.
Commerce.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Plantations > Georgie (État) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Plantations > Georgia > History > 18th century.
West Indies > British West Indies.
Georgia.
Georgie (État) > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
Georgie (État) > Commerce > Antilles britanniques > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Georgie (État) > Conditions economiques > 18e siecle.
Georgia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
West Indies, British > Commerce > Georgia > History > 18th century.
Georgia > Commerce > West Indies, British > History > 18th century.
Georgia > Economic conditions > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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