Michael Jarvis' new book In the Eye of All Trade, is reviewed by The Royal Gazette's Jennifer Hind:
"In the introduction of his comprehensive and fascinating opus 'In the Eye of All Trade', Michael J. Jarvis, Associate Professor of History at the University of Rochester, New York, outlines the scope of his extensive research into Bermuda, Bermudians and the Maritime Atlantic world spanning the period from settlement to the emergence of the United States of America.
He also presents his central premise that from the deck of a Bermuda sloop, the world, particularly the Atlantic world, looked very different from the view traditionally presented by US-centric historians for whom Colonial America traditionally meant the 13 original colonies, perhaps Newfoundland and occasionally the Caribbean.
Jarvis challenges the reader to look at British America, and Bermudians' role in its development, from an entirely different perspective. He rotates the traditional Mercator projection, with its North-South orientation, 90 degrees so that instead of being on the fringes of the New World, he argues "Bermuda lay at the centre of this vast American crescent".
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