Bermuda Discovered
Author: John Hoedemakers
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-03-30
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9081189034
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Author: John Hoedemakers
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-03-30
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9081189034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael J. Jarvis
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2022-06-14
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1421443619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can the small, isolated island of Bermuda help us to understand the early expansion of English America? First discovered by Europeans in 1505, the island of Bermuda had no indigenous population and no permanent European presence until the early seventeenth century. Settled five years after Virginia and eight years before Plymouth, Bermuda is a foundational site of English colonization. Its history reveals strikingly different paths of potential colonial development as a place where slave-owning puritan tobacco planters raised large families, engaged overseas markets, built ships, created a Christian commonwealth, hanged witches, wrestled to define racial difference, and welcomed godly pirates raiding Spanish America. In Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints, Michael J. Jarvis presents readers with a new narrative social and cultural history of Bermuda. Adopting a holistic, multidisciplinary approach that draws upon thirty years of research and archaeological fieldwork, Jarvis recounts Bermuda's turbulent, dynamic past from the Sea Venture's dramatic 1609 shipwreck through the 1684 dissolution of the Bermuda Company. He argues that the island was the first of England's colonies to produce a successful staple, form a stable community, turn a profit, transplant civic institutions, and harness bound African knowledge and labor. Bermuda was a tabula rasa that fired the imaginations of English thinkers aspiring to create an American utopia. It was also England's first puritan colony, founded as a covenanted Christian commonwealth in 1612 by self-consciously religious settlers who committed themselves to building a moral society. By the 1670s, Bermuda had become England's most densely populated possession and was poised to become an intercolonial maritime hub after freeing itself from its antiquated parent company. The first scholarly monograph in eighty years on this important, neglected colony's first century, Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints is a worthy prequel to In the Eye of All Trade, Jarvis's masterful first book. Revealing the dynamic interplay of race, gender, slavery, and environment at the dawn of English America, Jarvis's work challenges us to rethink how Europeans and Africans became distinctly American within the crucible of colonization.
Author: Wesley Frank Craven
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 196
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 758
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wayne Lonnie Brown
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency
Published: 2014-01-22
Total Pages: 67
ISBN-13: 1625168241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike my first book published in 1999, The Historical Roots of Proper Islamic Governance in Bermuda, this is a history book. It clarifies some points in my first book, but more importantly, it addresses questions about the Bermuda Triangle that are continuously asked by Muslims the world over, both by many of the Ulama as well as ordinary Muslims, and also asked by non-Muslims. No one prior to me has discovered the answers I relate in this book about the Bermuda Triangle. The so-called mystery is solved by me, a Bermudian Muslim, and all praise is due to God. Why shouldn't God's mercy allow a Bermudian to discover something unique about Bermuda? The Bermuda Triangle Islamic Perspective: Within the Context of Bermuda Muslim History begins to unfold in the year 2000 and takes us up to present day. It is a new perspective of untold proportions.
Author: Addison Emery Verrill
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 582
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 421
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael J. Jarvis
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 703
ISBN-13: 0807895881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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 shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, harvested timber, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled contraband in an expansive maritime sphere spanning Great Britain's North American and Caribbean colonies. In doing so, he shows how humble sailors and seafaring slaves operating small family-owned vessels were significant but underappreciated agents of Atlantic integration. The American Revolution starkly revealed the extent of British America's integration before 1775 as it shattered interregional links that Bermudians had helped to forge. Reliant on North America for food and customers, Bermudians faced disaster at the conflict's start. A bold act of treason enabled islanders to continue trade with their rebellious neighbors and helped them to survive and even prosper in an Atlantic world at war. Ultimately, however, the creation of the United States ended Bermuda's economic independence and doomed the island's maritime economy.
Author: Brent Fortenberry
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ISBN-13: 9781351192712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dave Kelly
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-07-15
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1502628430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor centuries, there have been great questions surrounding some of the world's most well-known places. This book explores the history behind locations like the Bermuda Triangle and Stonehenge and examines how science has sought to explain some of the deepest-rooted mysteries of the world. Full of photographs, eyewitness accounts, hoaxes, and scientific approaches, this book allows readers to dive into these fascinating places like never before.