02882nam 2200589 a 450 991078630060332120230803025317.01-299-13220-00-8203-4580-6(CKB)2670000000330248(EBL)1172651(OCoLC)827235530(SSID)ssj0000820180(PQKBManifestationID)11459504(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820180(PQKBWorkID)10863249(PQKB)10233672(MiAaPQ)EBC1172651(MdBmJHUP)muse25483(Au-PeEL)EBL1172651(CaPaEBR)ebr10654606(CaONFJC)MIL444470(EXLCZ)99267000000033024820120910d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn the rim of the Caribbean[electronic resource] colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic world /Paul M. PresslyAthens University of Georgia Pressc20131 online resource (385 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8203-3567-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 coloPlantationsGeorgiaHistory18th centuryGeorgiaEconomic conditions18th centuryGeorgiaCommerceWest Indies, BritishHistory18th centuryWest Indies, BritishCommerceGeorgiaHistory18th centuryGeorgiaHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775PlantationsHistory975.8/02Pressly Paul M1537776MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786300603321On the rim of the Caribbean3787293UNINA