European empires in the American South : colonial and environmental encounters /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ward, Joseph P., 1965- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]
Series:	Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History series.
Subjects:	Southern States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Southern States > Colonization > History. Southern States > Economic conditions. Southern States > Social conditions. Southern States > Politics and government.

Table of Contents:

Colonial industry and the language of empire: silkworks in the Virginia Colony, 1607-1655 / Allison Margaret Bigelow
"The confines and boundaries of the land": the struggle for Fort King George and the southern frontiers, 1721-1725 / Alejandra Dubcovsky
Negotiating slavery and empire: Yamasee Indians in the early Southeast / Denise I. Bossy
The seller king: revisiting control and authority in French Louisiana / Alexandre Dubé
"A well grounded Christian commonwealth": Nicholas Trott of South Carolina and Britain's Atlantic empire / Travis Glasson
The empire, the emperor, and the empress: the interesting case of Mrs. Mary Bosomworth / Joshua Piker
The American South in the French empire: ses étés longs et chauds / Christopher Morris
Incidental imperialist: John Bartram's Florida travels, 1765-1766 / Robert Olwell
Urbanity and the endurance of global empire: Charleston and Calcutta before and after the American Revolution / Jonathan Eacott.