European Empires in the American South: Colonial and Environmental Encounters

262 Pages·2017·5.924 MB·English

by  Joseph P. Ward

EUROPEAN EMPIRES
IN THE
AMERICAN SOUTH

EUROPEAN EMPIRES
IN THE
AMERICAN SOUTH
Colonial and
Environmental Encounters
edited by
Joseph P. Ward
University Press of Mississippi | Jackson
Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium
in Southern History Series
www.upress.state.ms.us
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the Association of American University Presses.
A somewhat different version of Chapter One appeared as “Gendered
Language and the Science of Colonial Silk” in Early American Literature 49,
no. 2 (Summer 2014): 271–325. doi: 10.1353/ea1.2014.0024.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ward, Joseph P., 1965– editor.
Title: European empires in the American South: colonial and environmental
encounters / edited by Joseph P. Ward.
Description: Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, [2017] | Series:
Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017020581 (print) | LCCN 2017021629 (ebook) | ISBN
9781496812209 (epub single) | ISBN 9781496812216 (epub institutional) |
ISBN 9781496812223 (pdf single) | ISBN 9781496812230 (pdf institutional)
| ISBN 9781496812193 (cloth: alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: 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.
Classification: LCC F212 (ebook) | LCC F212 .E94 2017 (print) | DDC
975/.02—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017020581
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 3
Joseph P. Ward
1 Colonial Industry and the Language of Empire 8
Silkworks in the Virginia Colony, 1607–1655
Allison Margaret Bigelow
2 “The Confines and Boundaries of the Land” 37
The Struggle for Fort King George and the Southern Frontiers, 1721–1725
Alejandra Dubcovsky
3 Negotiating Slavery and Empire 57
Yamasee Indians in the Early Southeast
Denise I. Bossy
4 The Seller King 87
Revisiting Control and Authority in French Louisiana
Alexandre Dubé
5 “A Well Grounded Christian Commonwealth” 122
Nicholas Trott of South Carolina and Britain’s Atlantic Empire
Travis Glasson
6 The Empire, the Emperor, and the Empress 149
The Interesting Case of Mrs. Mary Bosomworth
Joshua Piker
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7 The American South in the French Empire 169
Les Étés Longs et Chauds
Christopher Morris
8 Incidental Imperialist 188
John Bartram’s Florida Travels, 1765–1766
Robert Olwell
9 Urbanity and the Endurance of Global Empire 218
Charleston and Calcutta before and after the American Revolution
Jonathan Eacott
Afterword 240
Kathleen DuVal
About the Contributors 245
Index 247
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This project began with the 2013 Porter Fortune Jr. History Symposium at the
University of Mississippi. The editor thanks the symposium participants as
well as all those who contributed to making the event successful, especially
History staff members Kelly Brown Houston and Betty Harness. The editor
also thanks the external readers of the manuscript for the University of
Mississippi Press, whose comments and suggestions greatly strengthened
the present volume, as well as the press’s outstanding editorial and produc-
tion staff members, especially Craig Gill and Emily Bandy. Kristi Ezernack,
Michael Levine, Sabine Barcatta, Paige Smitten, and Jessica Nelson contrib-
uted significantly to the final stages of the volume’s production.
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EUROPEAN EMPIRES
IN THE
AMERICAN SOUTH