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Author Pressly, Paul M.

Title On the rim of the Caribbean [electronic resource] : colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic world / Paul M. Pressly.

Imprint Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2013.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 354 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Plantations -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century.
Georgia -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
Georgia -- Commerce -- West Indies, British -- History -- 18th century.
West Indies, British -- Commerce -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century.
Georgia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780820335674 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0820335673 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820345031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820345032 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820345802 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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