Overview
In the South, colonialism threw together three peoples who each played important roles in the creation of a new kind of society. Making an Atlantic World explores how Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans understood the landscapes they inhabited and how, after contact, their views of the world had to accommodate and then accept the presence of the others. Based on the notion of “founding peoples” rather than “founding fathers,” Making an Atlantic World uses an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to interpret the Colonial South. James Taylor Carson uses historical ethnogeography - a new methodology that brings together the study of history, anthropology, and geography. This method seeks to incorporate concepts of space and landscape with social perspectives to give students and scholars a better understanding of the forces that shaped the development of a synthesized southern culture. Unlike previous studies, which considered colonization as a contest over land but rarely considered what the land was and how people understood their relationships to it, Making an Atlantic World shows how the founding peoples perceived their world before contact and how they responded to contact and colonization. The author contends that each of the three groups involved-the first people, the invading people, and the enslaved people-possessed a particular worldview that they had to adapt to each other to face the challenges brought about by contact.
Full Product Details
Author: James Taylor Carson
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Imprint: University of Tennessee Press
Edition: 3rd ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.500kg
ISBN: 9781621900610
ISBN 10: 1621900614
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 30 May 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Carson provides scholars of the South with a history that evenly accounts for the contributions of all of the founding peoples, and scholars of Atlantic history with a model of how to integrate peoples into a single narrative. --Jessica Ross Stern, H-Net Reviews
""Carson provides scholars of the South with a history that evenly accounts for the contributions of all of the founding peoples, and scholars of Atlantic history with a model of how to integrate peoples into a single narrative."" --Jessica Ross Stern, H-Net Reviews
"""Carson provides scholars of the South with a history that evenly accounts for the contributions of all of the founding peoples, and scholars of Atlantic history with a model of how to integrate peoples into a single narrative."" --Jessica Ross Stern, H-Net Reviews"
Author Information
James Taylor Carson is associate professor of history at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal. His articles and reviews have appeared in Ethnohistory, Journal of Mississippi History, Agricultural History, Journal of Military History, and other publications.
