On the rim of the Caribbean : colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic world / Paul M. Pressly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pressly, Paul M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plantations--Georgia--History--18th century.

Plantations.

Georgia--Economic conditions--18th century.

Georgia.

Georgia--Commerce--West Indies, British--History--18th century.

West Indies, British--Commerce--Georgia--History--18th century.

West Indies, British.

Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 colo

Contents:

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299132207

1299132200

9780820345802

0820345806

OCLC:

827235530