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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Small stain on cover. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page, else unmarked. xi, 220 p., illustrations, maps, 23 cm. "Scholars, including those represented in this volume, are now mining Florida's rich archival materials and unearthing its material culture through archaeological investigations. They are discovering that Florida's colonial economy was much more diversified and integrated into the wider Atlantic commerce than previously has been understood. Were it not for the repeated violence that wreaked havoc in the colony in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Florida might have achieved the prosperity its boosters once predicted." - Introduction From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998). …