Tobacco coast : a maritime history of Chesapeake Bay in the colonial era
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Tobacco coast : a maritime history of Chesapeake Bay in the colonial era
（Maryland paperback bookshelf）
Johns Hopkins University Press : Maryland State Archives, 1984
Maryland paperback bookshelf ed
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Reprint. Originally published: Newport News, Va. : Mariners' Museum, 1953. With a new foreword
Bibliography: p. 459-480
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
It is not surprising to anyone who knows the Bay country that the Chesapeake captured the imagination of Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries," writes Arthur Pierce Middleton in this classic maritime history of the earliest years of Maryland and Virginia. "It was called the 'Noblest Bay in the Universe' in which the whole navies of Great Britain, France and the Netherlands might simultaneously ride at anchor." "Tobacco Coast" is the history of how the Chesapeake Bay shaped the society and economy of an entire region. Its hundreds of miles of navigable tributaries made adoption of the tobacco staples possible and eliminated the necessity of cities and towns; its physical dominance created an "essential unity" of lands sharing its shores, despite the political decisions that created the separate colonies of Maryland and Virginia.
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 when violent storms struck off the coast) and traces how the settlers persevered and the colonies thrived, due in great measure to the growth of tobacco as the mainstay of Chesapeake commerce (in 1775 it represented over 75 percent 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--are all treated with insight, drama, and thoroughness in a fascinating maritime history, long out of print and now widely made available for the first time.
目次
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
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