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Author:

Pressly, Paul M.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xi, 354 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Georgia--Economic conditions--18th century.
Georgia--History--West Indies, British--History--18th century.
West Indies, British--History--Georgia--History--18th century.
Plantations--Georgia--History--18th century.
Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Notes:

Errata slip interted. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0820345032 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820345031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820335673 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820335674 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)809789692

LCCN:

2012033964

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)