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A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined
power and defied authority Ā āAn artful, powerful book. . .
. [A] substantial contribution to our knowledge of women in the
so-called āforgotten centuriesā of European colonialism in the
southeast.āāMalinda Maynor Lowery, author of The Lumbee Indians
Ā āA remarkable book. Alejandra Dubcovsky pursued
relentless research to uncover the histories of women previously
unseen, even unnamed. As Dubcovsky shows, they had names, they had
families, they had lives that mattered. The historical landscape is
transformed by their presence.āāLisa Brooks, author of Our
Beloved Kin Ā Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of
war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and
resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives
she rewrites early American history, challenging the established
male-centered narrative. Ā Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives
of Native womenāTimucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and Gualeāto show
how they made claims to protect their livelihoods, bodies, and
families. Through the stories of the Native cacica who demanded her
authority be recognized; the elite Spanish woman who turned her
dowry and household into a source of independent power; the
Floridiana who slapped a leading Native man in the town square; and
the Black woman who ran a successful business at the heart of a
Spanish town, Dubcovsky reveals the formidable women who claimed
and used their power, shaping the history of the early South.
Informed Power maps the intricate, intersecting channels of
information exchange in the early American South, exploring how
people in the colonial world came into possession of vital
knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a
printing press until the 1730s. Challenging the notion of early
colonial America as an uninformed backwater, Alejandra Dubcovsky
uncovers the ingenious ways its inhabitants acquired timely news
through largely oral networks. Information circulated through the
region via spies, scouts, traders, missionaries, and other ad hoc
couriers-and by encounters of sheer chance with hunting parties,
shipwrecked sailors, captured soldiers, or fugitive slaves. For
many, content was often inseparable from the paths taken and the
alliances involved in acquiring it. The different and innovative
ways that Indians, Africans, and Europeans struggled to make sense
of their world created communication networks that linked together
peoples who otherwise shared no consensus of the physical and
political boundaries shaping their lives. Exchanging information
was not simply about having the most up-to-date news or the
quickest messenger. It was a way of establishing and maintaining
relationships, of articulating values and enforcing priorities-a
process inextricably tied to the region's social and geopolitical
realities. At the heart of Dubcovsky's study are important lessons
about the nexus of information and power in the early American
South.
There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields
of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship
in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology
places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence.
Editors Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson provide a lucid
introduction to this collection of essays that brings these
disciplines together. With this volume, historians explore crucial
insights into a self-consciously Atlantic environmental history of
the American South, touching on such topics as ideas about slavery,
gender, climate, "colonial ecological revolution," manipulation of
the landscape, infrastructure, resources, and exploitation. By
centering this project on a region, the American South-defined as
the southeastern reaches of North America and the Caribbean- the
authors interrogate how European colonizers, Native Americans, and
Africans interacted in and with the (sub)tropics, a place foreign
to Europeans. Challenging the concepts of "Atlantic" and "southern"
and their intersection with "environments" is a discipline-defining
strategy at the leading edge of emerging scholarship. Taken
collectively, this book should encourage more readers to reimagine
this region, its time periods, climate(s), and ecocultural
networks.
There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields
of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship
in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology
places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence.
Editors Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson provide a lucid
introduction to this collection of essays that brings these
disciplines together. With this volume, historians explore crucial
insights into a self-consciously Atlantic environmental history of
the American South, touching on such topics as ideas about slavery,
gender, climate, "colonial ecological revolution," manipulation of
the landscape, infrastructure, resources, and exploitation. By
centering this project on a region, the American South-defined as
the southeastern reaches of North America and the Caribbean- the
authors interrogate how European colonizers, Native Americans, and
Africans interacted in and with the (sub)tropics, a place foreign
to Europeans. Challenging the concepts of "Atlantic" and "southern"
and their intersection with "environments" is a discipline-defining
strategy at the leading edge of emerging scholarship. Taken
collectively, this book should encourage more readers to reimagine
this region, its time periods, climate(s), and ecocultural
networks.
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