| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages) |
| Series |
Environmental history and the American South |
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Environmental history and the American South.
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| Contents |
Atlantic, environmental, southern : toward a confluence / Thomas Blake Earlre and D. Andrew Johnson -- Differentiating hot climates in the Anglo-American colonial experience / Sean Morey Smith -- "The wind can blow through and through" : ventilation, public health, and the regulation of fresh air on antebellum southern plantations / Elaine Lafay -- "Miserably scorched" : drought in the plantation colonies of the British Greater Caribbean / Matthew Mulcahy -- Native women work the ground : enslavement and civility in the early American Southeast / Hayley Negrin -- Ocean graveyards and ulterior Atlantic worlds : the experience of colonial North Carolina / Bradford J. Wood -- Profitable transgressions : international borders and British Atlantic trade networks in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1763-1783 / Frances Kolb -- Spanish and indigenous influences on Virginian tobacco cultivation / Melissa N. Morris -- Environmental knowledge, expertise, and the development of slavery in Bermuda / Keith Pluymers -- The nature of William Bartram's Travels / Peter C. Messer |
| Summary |
"This anthology places itself at the intersection of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, pushing for a new "confluence" of scholarship. There is clear overlap in interests and influences for these fields but they have proceeded, largely, on parallel tracks to-date. In their lucid introduction and throughout the collection, an emerging group of historians explore crucial insights that a self-consciously Atlantic environmental history of the American South can offer. By centering this project on a region, the American South-defined as the southeastern reaches of North America and the Caribbean-the authors interrogate ways in which European colonizers, Native Americans, and Africans interacted in and with the (sub)tropics, a place foreign to Europeans"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Southern States -- History
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Human ecology -- West Indies -- History
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Slavery -- Southern States -- History
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Slavery -- West Indies -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Human ecology
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Slavery
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| SUBJECT |
Southern States -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125643
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West Indies -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146196
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| Subject |
Southern States
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West Indies
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Earle, Thomas Blake, editor.
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Johnson, D. Andrew, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780820356471 |
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0820356476 |
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