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Before Hurricane Katrina, Desmond Alexander Mathers earned the nick
name 'Demon' because of his work ethic; now that he finds himself
in his birth town, Demon take on a completely different meaning. He
explores the odd dichotomy of this happenstance through his
experiences in an environment much different than his adopted home,
New Orleans. The Strange Tale of Scruff McGruff is written shortly
after the events in The Maiden and the Demon, and reveal much about
his character, especially where his relationship with a former
lover, Amy, is concerned. He delves deeply into his choices and
decisions, with the goal of understand not only how the name Demon
applies, but where he is truly headed.
Professional Cook and Hurricane Katrina survivor, Desmond attempts
to pull his professional and social life together in a small
Southern Virginia city. His attempts only strengthen a belief in
his dark Nick-Name: Demon.
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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