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

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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 USD4 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.

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Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13
9780801825347
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Author
Arthur Pierce Middleton
Publication Name
Tobacco Coast: a Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
1984
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
528 Pages

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216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
635g

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Arthur Pierce Middleton
Series Title
Maryland Paperback Bookshelf
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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