{"product_id":"isle-of-devils-isle-of-saints-9781421443607","title":"Isle of Devils Isle of Saints","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRich and rewarding.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Royal Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's Note\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. A New Bermuda Triangle\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Isle of Devils\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Planting a Christian Commonwealth\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Bermuda: Company and Colony\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Becoming Bermudian: Saints, Slaves, and Sinners\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Tobacco Troubles: Diversification in an Expanding English Atlantic\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Clerical Conflicts and Civil War\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Restorations: King, Company, Colony\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Battle for Bermuda, 1669–1684\u003cbr\u003eConclusion. Change and Persistence in a New Maritime Bermuda\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eEssay on Sources\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408145621335,"sku":"9781421443607","price":45.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421443607.jpg?v=1730501752","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/isle-of-devils-isle-of-saints-9781421443607","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}