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Book SynopsisHow 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 Berm
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The Royal GazetteTable of ContentsPreface
Author's Note
Introduction. A New Bermuda Triangle
Chapter 1. Isle of Devils
Chapter 2. Planting a Christian Commonwealth
Chapter 3. Bermuda: Company and Colony
Chapter 4. Becoming Bermudian: Saints, Slaves, and Sinners
Chapter 5. Tobacco Troubles: Diversification in an Expanding English Atlantic
Chapter 6. Clerical Conflicts and Civil War
Chapter 7. Restorations: King, Company, Colony
Chapter 8. The Battle for Bermuda, 1669–1684
Conclusion. Change and Persistence in a New Maritime Bermuda
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
