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Jarvis delicately situates the details of the Bermudian history within this Atlantic sweep, thereby crafting a book that is finely calibrated. . . . Should be required reading for Atlantic scholars. . . . Jarvis' theme of self-organization . . . will kee

This masterly study....the result of 20 years of research, is confidently written and structured. <br>- Journal for Maritime Research

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

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

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