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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens, Georgia :
University of Georgia Press,
2020
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.