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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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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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505 0 |a 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. 
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