| Atlantic Environments and the American South Subjects: Human ecology -- Southern States -- History; Human ecology -- West Indies -- History; Slavery -- Southern States -- History; Slavery -- West Indies -- History; Southern States -- History; West Indies -- History; 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. Thomas Blake Earle (Editor) THOMAS BLAKE EARLE is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, Galveston, and the author of "For Cod and Country: Cod Fishermen and the Atlantic Dimensions of Sectionalism in Antebellum America" in the Journal of the Early Republic . D. Andrew Johnson (Editor) D. ANDREW JOHNSON is the author of "Displacing Captives in Colonial South Carolina: Native American Enslavement and the Rise of the State after the Yamasee War" in the Journal of Early American History. |