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Maryland Paperback Bookshelf Ser.: Tobacco Coast : A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era by Arthur Pierce Middleton (1984, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press

ISBN-100801825342

ISBN-139780801825347

eBay Product ID (ePID)671386

Product Key Features

Number of Pages528 Pages

Publication NameTobacco Coast : a Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, De, Fl, Ga, Md, Nc, SC, VA, WV), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Maritime History & Piracy

Publication Year1984

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTravel, History

AuthorArthur Pierce Middleton

SeriesMaryland Paperback Bookshelf Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight22.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN84-047962

Reviews"A gold mine of maritime history... Middleton's Tobacco Coast is credited by some scholars with generating much of today's environmental and historical interest in the Chesapeake Bay, even before James Michener got hold of it."-- Newport News Daily Press, A gold mine of maritime history... Middleton's Tobacco Coast is credited by some scholars with generating much of today's environmental and historical interest in the Chesapeake Bay, even before James Michener got hold of it., ""A gold mine of maritime history... Middleton's Tobacco Coast is credited by some scholars with generating much of today's environmental and historical interest in the Chesapeake Bay, even before James Michener got hold of it.""

Dewey Edition19

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal975.2

Table Of ContentForeword 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

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisTobacco 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., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberF187.C5M5 1984