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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...
| Other Authors: | , |
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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 |
| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780820356471 |