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Atlantic Environments and the American South

Atlantic Environments and the American South

Earle, Thomas Blake
Johnson, D. Andrew
Dubcovsky, Alejandra

Paperback

Series: Environmental History and the American South

General United States History

ISBN10: 0820356697
ISBN13: 9780820356693
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Mar 1 2020
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence. Editors Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson provide a lucid introduction to this collection of essays that brings these disciplines together. With this volume, historians explore crucial insights into a self-consciously Atlantic environmental history of the American South, touching on such topics as ideas about slavery, gender, climate, colonial ecological revolution, manipulation of the landscape, infrastructure, resources, and exploitation.

By centering this project on a region, the American South--defined as the southeastern reaches of North America and the Caribbean-- the authors interrogate how European colonizers, Native Americans, and Africans interacted in and with the (sub)tropics, a place foreign to Europeans.

Challenging the concepts of Atlantic and southern and their intersection with environments is a discipline-defining strategy at the leading edge of emerging scholarship. Taken collectively, this book should encourage more readers to reimagine this region, its time periods, climate(s), and ecocultural networks.

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