Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Currency, Weights, Measures, and Quotations -- Introduction: IN THE EYE OF ALL TRADE: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783 -- Chapter 1 COLONIZING PARADISE: The Somers Islands Company and Colony -- Chapter 2 BERMUDA'S TURN TO THE SEA, 1685-1715 -- Chapter 3 BERMUDA'S MARITIME ECONOMY 1: Circumatlantic Shipping and Smuggling, 1715-1775 -- Chapter 4 BERMUDA'S MARITIME ECONOMY 2: Working the Atlantic Commons, 1690-1775 -- Chapter 5 A SEAFARING PEOPLE: Bermuda's Maritime Society -- Chapter 6 MARITIME MIGRATION, TRADE, AND ATLANTIC FAMILIES -- Chapter 7 NAVIGATING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- Epilogue: FROM SEAPORT TO SENTRY POST: The Decline of Maritime Bermuda, 1783-1820 -- Conclusion: FATE, CONTINGENCY, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARITIME AMERICA -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.