Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South

Burnard, Trevor

Abstract

This historiographical chapter argues that, for all its many achievements, Atlantic History’s early modern fixation has exacerbated an unhelpful division between American colonial historians, who have been increasingly committed to Atlanto-centric perspectives, and colleagues working in the later nineteenth century and beyond, who use such paradigms relatively rarely. Like many chapters in the book, it suggests there is great potential in a more elastic temporal approach to the Atlantic World among southern, and other, historians.

Citation

Burnard, T. (2013). Ending with a whimper, not a bang: The relationship between Atlantic history and the study of the nineteenth-century South. In B. Ward, M. Bone, & W. A. Link (Eds.), The American South and the Atlantic world (129-148). University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813044378.003.0007

• Online Publication Date: May 14, 2013
• Publication Date: May 14, 2013
• Deposit Date: Apr 1, 2022
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Pages: 129-148
• Book Title: The American South and the Atlantic world
• Chapter Number: 6
• ISBN: 9780813044378
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813044378.003.0007
• Keywords: American/US South; Atlantic history; Colonial America; 19th century America; Historiography
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3579675