Atlantic environments and the American South /edited by Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson.
- Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages)
- Environmental history and the American South .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Atlantic, environmental, southern : toward a confluence / Differentiating hot climates in the Anglo-American colonial experience / "The wind can blow through and through" : ventilation, public health, and the regulation of fresh air on antebellum southern plantations / "Miserably scorched" : drought in the plantation colonies of the British Greater Caribbean / Native women work the ground : enslavement and civility in the early American Southeast / Ocean graveyards and ulterior Atlantic worlds : the experience of colonial North Carolina / Profitable transgressions : international borders and British Atlantic trade networks in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1763-1783 / Spanish and indigenous influences on Virginian tobacco cultivation / Environmental knowledge, expertise, and the development of slavery in Bermuda / The nature of William Bartram's Travels / Thomas Blake Earlre and D. Andrew Johnson -- Sean Morey Smith -- Elaine Lafay -- Matthew Mulcahy -- Hayley Negrin -- Bradford J. Wood -- Frances Kolb -- Melissa N. Morris -- Keith Pluymers -- Peter C. Messer.
"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"--
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