TY - BOOK ID - 135041605 TI - Atlantic environments and the American South AU - Earle, Thomas Blake AU - Johnson, D Andrew PY - 2020 SN - 0820356476 9780820356471 9780820356488 0820356484 9780820356693 0820356697 PB - Athens, Georgia DB - UniCat KW - Human ecology KW - Human ecology KW - Slavery KW - Slavery KW - History. KW - History. KW - History. KW - History. KW - West Indies KW - Southern States KW - History. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135041605 AB - "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"-- ER -