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Atlantic Environments and the American South /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Johnson, D. Andrew (Editor ), Earle, Thomas Blake (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (242 pages).
ISBN:9780820356471