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In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
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In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner’s view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda’s seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position “in the eye of all trade.”
Jarvis takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops and follows white and enslaved sailors as they … More >>
In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
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Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal
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This political history of middle-class African American women during World War I focuses on their patriotic activity and social work. Nearly 200,000 African American men joined the Allied forces in France. At home, black clubwomen raised more than $125 million in wartime donations and assembled “comfort kits” for black soldiers, with chocolate, cigarettes, socks, a bible, and writing materials. Given the hostile racial climate of the day, why did black women make co… More >>
Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal
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Empire’s Nature: Mark Catesby’s New World Vision
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Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain’s American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby’s Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scient… More >>
Empire’s Nature: Mark Catesby’s New World Vision
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