Tobacco Coast

A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era
Erscheinungsjahr 1984
ISBN: 978-0-8018-2534-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 737 g

Reihe: Maryland Paperback Bookshelf

Tobacco Coast is the history of how the Chesapeake Bay shaped the society and economy of an ertire region. Its hundreds of miles of navigable tributaries made adoption of the tobacco staple possible and eliminated the necessity of cities and towns; its physical dominance created an "essencial unity" of lands sharing its shores, despite the political decisions that created separate colonies of Maryland and Virgina. Middleton recaptures the peril faced by the early colonists (Father Andrew White, who arrived in the Ark, wrote that "all the Sprights and witches of Maryland" seemed arrayed in battle against the ship whn violent storms struck off the coast) and traces how the sttlers persevered and the colonies thrived, due in great measure to the growth of tobacco as the mainstray of Chesapeake commerce (in 1775 it represented over 75 precent of the total value of exports from the Chesapeake colonies and was worth some $4 million).

Colonial life and commerce, shipbuilding and the merchant marine, privateers and self-protection—all are treated with insight, drama, and thoroughness in a fascinating maritime history, long out of print and now made widely available for the first time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Middleton, Arthur Pierce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Foreword to the First Edition
Part I. Sea and Bay
Chapter 1. Ocean Passage
Chapter 2. The Great Bay of Chesapeake
Chapter 3. Shoals and Shallows
Part II. Commerce
Chapter 4. The Tobacco Trade
Chapter 5. British and African Trade
Chapter 6. American and South-European Trade
Part III. Shipping
Chapter 7. Ships and Shipbuilding
Chapter 8. The Merchant Marine
Chapter 9. Masters and mariners
Part IV. Warfare
Chapter 10. The Convoy System
Chapter 11. Defense of the Bay
Chapter 12. Prizes and Privateers
Part V. Conclusion
Chapter 13. Conclusion
Footnotes
Bibliography
Appendices
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Middleton, Arthur Pierce
Arthur Pierce Middleton is the retired director of Colonial Williamsburg. He received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University under Samual Eliot Morison.

Arthur Pierce Middleton is the retired director of Colonial Williamsburg. He recieved his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University under Samual Eliot Morison.