uscpress.com - Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World https://uscpress.com/ The Torrid Zone https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017676/The-Torrid-Zone
The first comparative treatment of settlers' trading, pirating, and colonizing activities in the Caribbean

Brimming with new perspectives and cutting-edge research, the essays collected…]]>
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Material Culture in Anglo-America https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017210/Material-Culture-in-Anglo-America
A heavily illustrated comparative study of artifacts and architecture from three historically linked regions

Material Culture in Anglo-America examines the extent to which regions proje…]]>
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The Irish in the Atlantic World https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017237/The-Irish-in-the-Atlantic-World
A new vision of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present.

The Irish in the Atlantic World presents a transnational and comparative view…]]>
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Ambiguous Anniversary https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017328/Ambiguous-Anniversary
In March 1807, within a few weeks of each other, both the United States and the United Kingdom passed laws banning the international slave trade. Two hundred years later, Great Britain, an ins…]]>
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Creating and Contesting Carolina https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017386/Creating-and-Contesting-Carolina
The essays in Creating and Contesting Carolina shed new light on how the various peoples of the Carolinas responded to the tumultuous changes shaping the geographic space that the British call…]]>
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Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017409/Jewish-Sanctuary-in-the-Atlantic-World
A cultural and architectural history of Judaism as it expanded and took root in the Atlantic world

Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a unique blend of cultural and architectural…]]>
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The Civil War as Global Conflict https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017416/The-Civil-War-as-Global-Conflict
A collection of essays highlighting the war not only as a North American conflict but as a global one

In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial com…]]>
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Working on the Dock of the Bay https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017491/Working-on-the-Dock-of-the-Bay
An examination of the role and struggles of dockworkers—enslaved and free—in Charleston between the American Revolution and the Civil War

Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the his…]]>
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Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017656/Religion-Space-and-the-Atlantic-World
An interdisciplinary exploration of the influence of physical space in the study of religion

While the concept of an Atlantic world has been central to the work of historians for decade…]]>
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Port Cities of the Atlantic World https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017918/Port-Cities-of-the-Atlantic-World
Traces the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic world

Port Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that exam…]]>
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