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Port cities of the Atlantic world : sea-facing histories of the US South / edited by Jacob Steere-Williams and Blake C. Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
- Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Port cities--Atlantic Coast (U.S.)--History.
- Port cities.
- Port cities--Southern States--History.
- Southern States--History.
- Southern States.
- United States--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2023]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "Trac[ing] the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic world, Port Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that examine the centuries-long trans-Altlantic transportation of people, goods, and ideas with a focus on the impact of that trade on what would become the American South. Employing a wide temporal range and broad geographic scope, the scholars contributing to this volume call for a sea-facing history of the South, one that connects that terrestrial region to this expansive maritime history. By bringing the study up to the 20th century in the collection's final section, the editors, Jacob Steere-Williams and Blake C. Scott, make the case for the lasting influence of these port cities-and Atlantic world history-on the economy, society, and culture of the contemporary South"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Watery connections: port cities of the US South and the Atlantic world / Jacob Steere-Williams, Blake C. Scott
- A native port in a native market: how indigenous peoples shaped the foundation of Carolina, 1670-1710 / Miller Wright
- Bodies on the beach: Sullivans Island and the processing of West African bodies for market in the Anglo-Atlantic world / Neal D. Polhemus
- Urban slavery in two colonial port cities, Charleston and New York: twin trajectories? / Anne-Claire Faucquez
- Spanish foundations of the French Quarter: rebuilding colonial New Orleans in the wake of disaster / Cindy Ermus
- Quarantine diplomacy: public health and transatlantic commerce during the yellow fever pandemic of 1793-1805 / Julia P.R. Mansfield
- The contagious cure: inoculation experiments in British colonial port cities / Andrew M. Wehrman
- To trip the light fantastic: dance and the drums of revolution / Jason R. Young
- Conservative conservation: land, stewardship, and hegemony in coastal South Carolina / Levi Van Sant
- A nostalgia for white aristocracy: Lost Cause tourism in the US South / Taulby H. Edmondson
- Atlantic port cities, creole spaces? / Simon Lewis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-64336-457-X
- OCLC:
- 1396080803
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