{"product_id":"making-an-atlantic-world-circles-paths-and-stories-from-the-colonial-south-9781621900610","title":"Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the South, colonialism threw together three peoples who each played important roles in the creation of a new kind of society. \u003cem\u003eMaking an Atlantic World\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on the notion of “founding peoples” rather than “founding fathers,” \u003cem\u003eMaking an Atlantic World\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnlike 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, \u003cem\u003eMaking an Atlantic World\u003c\/em\u003e shows how the founding peoples perceived their world before contact and how they responded to contact and colonization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188885905751,"sku":"9781621900610","price":25.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-an-atlantic-world-circles-paths-and-stories-from-the-colonial-south-9781621900610","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}