On the Rim of the Caribbean - Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World

Informationen zum Autor PAUL M. PRESSLY was the director of the Ossabaw Island Education Alliance from 2005-2017; he now serves as director emeritus. He also provides leadership on special projects related to the future use of Ossabaw Island and on collaboration with K-12 and university institutions to provide educational programming. Pressly is coeditor of Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast and African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee . He is the author of On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World (all Georgia). Klappentext In On the Rim of the Caribbean , Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a frontier where Carolinians played so large a role earned its own distinctive character.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Pressly, Paul M Pressly, Paul M. Pressly
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2013
• EAN: 9780820345031
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4503-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous