Atlantic Environments and the American South (Environmental History and the American South Ser.)

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"--

• | Author: Thomas Blake Earle|D. Andrew Johnson
• | Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: March 01, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 244 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0820356484
• | ISBN-13: 9780820356488