In the Eye of All Trade

In the Eye of All Trade studies from all angles an island society that was as fully maritime as any in the Atlantic world. Michael Jarvis has explained best what the ocean itself lent to the lives of those who lived beside it.--Daniel Vickers, University of British Columbia|""Michael Jarvis's marvelous new book is not only easily the best history we have on Bermuda in the Atlantic World. It also provides us with an arresting perspective on British America, one from the deck of a ship rather than gazing westward across mountains. Jarvis shows us that in order to understand the Atlantic world we have to understand the curious society that was eighteenth-century Bermuda. A signal achievement and a major study in maritime social history.""--Trevor Burnard, University of Warwick|""Michael Jarvis's exemplary study of Bermuda and its industrious inhabitants will make it impossible for historians to ignore the island any longer. Jarvis argues that the colony occupied a unique and important geographic position at the crossroads of the English Atlantic, that the island was transformed by that position, and that in turn Bermudians transformed the English Atlantic. He builds a persuasive and thought-provoking case in his careful and exhaustive work.""--Alison Games, Georgetown University|""A remarkably through study of Bermuda's place in the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and a fascinating social history of the creative and distinctive maritime culture that emerged there. . . . While extraordinarily detailed, it is also a joy to read. Jarvis' writing is clear, concise and expertly-crafted.""--PhiloBiblos

Michael J. Jarvis is associate professor of history at the University of Rochester.