Book ID: CBB001212704

An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732--1795 (2012)

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Paulett, Robert E. (Author)


University of Georgia Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xiii + 259 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

Britain's colonial empire in southeastern North America relied on the cultivation and maintenance of economic and political ties with the numerous powerful Indian confederacies of the region. Those ties in turn relied on British traders adapting to Indian ideas of landscape and power. In An Empire of Small Places, Robert Paulett examines this interaction over the course of the eighteenth century, drawing attention to the ways that conceptions of space competed, overlapped, and changed. He encourages us to understand the early American South as a landscape made by interactions among American Indians, European Americans, and enslaved African American laborers. Focusing especially on the Anglo-Creek-Chickasaw route that ran from the coast through Augusta to present-day Mississippi and Tennessee, Paulett finds that the deerskin trade produced a sense of spatial and human relationships that did not easily fit into Britain's imperial ideas and thus forced the British to consciously articulate what made for a proper realm. He develops this argument in chapters about five specific kinds of places: the imagined spaces of British maps and the lived spaces of the Savannah River, the town of Augusta, traders' paths, and trading houses. In each case, the trade's practical demands privileged Indian, African, and nonelite European attitudes toward place. After the Revolution, the new United States created a different model for the Southeast that sought to establish a new system of Indian-white relationships oriented around individual neighborhoods.

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Authors & Contributors
Johnson, Alexander
Horn, Jennifer Van
Probasco, Nathan J.
Probasco, Nate
McCoy, Roger M.
Lehman, Scott
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Great Britain, colonies
Travel; exploration
American Indians; Native Americans; First Nations of the Americas
Geography
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
Early modern
20th century
Places
North America
United States
Great Britain
France
India
South Carolina (U.S.)
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