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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autres auteurs: | , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Athens, Georgia :
University of Georgia Press,
2020
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| Collection: | Environmental history and the American South.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "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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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780820356471 0820356476 |