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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810419203321
• Autore: Pressly Paul M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2013
• ISBN: 1-299-13220-0; 0-8203-4580-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 975.8/02
• Soggetti: 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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