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Titolo: | Another's country : archaeological and historical perspectives on cultural interactions in the southern colonies / / edited by J.W. Joseph and Martha Zierden ; foreword by Julia A. King |
Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
Disciplina: | 975/.02 |
Soggetto topico: | Acculturation - Southern States - History |
Intercultural communication - Southern States - History | |
Ethnology - Southern States - History | |
Ethnicity - Southern States - History | |
Group identity - Southern States - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Southern States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
Southern States Ethnic relations | |
Southern States Antiquities | |
Altri autori: | JosephJ. W. <1958-> ZierdenMartha A |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-266) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; 1 Cultural Diversity in the Southern Colonies; 2 The Yamasee in South Carolina: Native American Adaptation and Interaction along the Carolina Frontier; 3 Colonial African American Plantation Villages; 4 Tangible Interaction: Evidence from Stobo Plantation; 5 A Pattern of Living: A View of the African American Slave Experience in the Pine Forests of the Lower Cape Fear; 6 Guten Tag Bubba: Germans in the Colonial South; 7 An Open-Country Neighborhood in the Southern Colonial Backcountry; 8 Bethania: A Colonial Moravian Adaptation |
Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | The 18th-century South was a true melting pot, bringing together colonists from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and other locations, in addition to African slaves-all of whom shared in the experiences of adapting to a new environment and interacting with American Indians. The shared process of immigration, adaptation, and creolization resulted in a rich and diverse historic mosaic of cultures. The cultural encounters of these groups of settlers would ultimately define the meaning of life in the 19th-century South. The much-studied plantation society of |
Titolo autorizzato: | Another's country |
ISBN: | 0-8173-1341-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814690303321 |
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