Traces 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 transatlantic 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.
- Cover
- Port Cities of the Atlantic World
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Watery Connections: Port Cities of the US South and the Atlantic World
- Part 1 Peopling Ports through Race and Labor
- A Native Port in a Native Market: How Indigenous Peoples Shaped the Foundation of Carolina, 1670–1710
- Bodies on the Beach: Sullivan’s Island and the Processing of West African Bodies for Market in the Anglo-Atlantic World
- Urban Slavery in Two Colonial Port Cities, Charleston and New York: Twin Trajectories?
- Part 2 From Disease to Disaster
- Spanish Foundations of the French Quarter: Rebuilding Colonial New Orleans in the Wake of Disaster
- Quarantine Diplomacy: Public Health and Transatlantic Commerce during the Yellow Fever Pandemic of 1793–1805
- The Contagious Cure: Inoculation Experiments in British Colonial Port Cities
- Part 3 Protest, Conservation, and Tourism in the Lowcountry
- To Trip the Light Fantastic: Dance and the Drums of Revolution
- Conservative Conservation: Land, Stewardship, and Hegemony in Coastal South Carolina
- A Nostalgia for White Aristocracy: Lost Cause Tourism in the US South
- Afterword: Atlantic Port Cities, Creole Spaces?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
Login to your account
